Ellie Bryan and Jeanne Croud
Recorded
June 6, 2011
Archived
June 6, 2011
36:18 minutes
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Id:
DDB000936
Description
Ellie Bryan (21) talks to her friend Jeanne Boutang Croud (59) about her upbringing in Minneapolis and her racial identity - her mother is white, her father is biracial. Ellie is usually assumed to be white by people.Subject Log / Time Code
Ellie talks about how when she was very young, race wasn’t a big issue, but became a bigger issue as she grew older. Her first time identifying with a mixed race character was when reading “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston.
Ellie’s father was always assumed to be black, and self-identified as such.
Ellie talks about how she’ll talk about race to her kids, when she has them. She thinks about what the kids would look like, depending on who she has children with.
Ellie had blonde hair and blue eyes as a baby. When her father held her and walked around the grocery store, people assumed he had kidnapped the baby (so says Ellie’s mother).
Discussion of the blood quantum test.
Participants
- Ellie Bryan
- Jeanne Croud