#afrohaitian

@blue._.lotuslove: "I'm Lakaylah. I'm #mixedwith #NativeAmerican (#Cherokee) #White & #AfricanAmerican from my mother's side and #AfroHaitian from my father's side. I believe that my biggest thing about #beingmultiracial is that it's hard #beingmixed race with a skintone as #brown as mine. Growing up when it was known I was #Haitian and I was bombarded with Haitian stereotypes such as "Do you do voodoo?" Or "Speak creole!" When people find out I'm #Afroindigenous it feels suffocating because I used to feel I'm not #native enough to claim my great grandmother afro- indigenous lineage. Growing up in the #Black community showed me how much #colorism impacts the mindset of many #mixedAfricanAmerican kids. At some point i didn't want to tell people I was Haitian because I felt as if I didn't deserve it. Or that I shouldn't claim the lineage that my great grandmother has given to my grandmother, to my mother, who's given it to me. After a while I learned that its because I'm #mixed I'm able to unify the different cultures I'm born into. My darker shade doesn't erase what I am. Also to teach myself that there's more to me than the box I'm placed in." 🇭🇹🇺🇸🏳️🏴 #wcw #mixedgirlproblems https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce1n8x5u9BC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Still Martian......📸 by my brotha @endless___photography #idefinehassan #chroniclesofamartian #melanin #locs #menwithlocs #iamnyuesiubora #afrohaitian #artwork #basquiatbaby #thisisart #melanin #blackmanmagic #embracethemartian #kingmartian #weareculture #nothingmoveswithoutus #4hnyc #4hnycsupporter (at BK9)

The Revolution stay tuned...2021

Had to put myself out there

Mary Edmonia Lewis was an #American sculptor who worked for most of her career in Rome, Italy. Born free in New York, she was the first woman of #AfricanAmerican and #NativeAmerican heritage to achieve international fame and recognition as a sculptor in the fine arts world. Her work is known for incorporating themes relating to black and #indigenous peoples of the Americas into Neoclassical-style sculpture. She gained prominence and at the end of the 19th century, she remained the only black woman who had participated in and been recognized to any degree by the American artistic mainstream. In 2002, the scholar Molefi Kete Asante named her on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans. Her father was #AfroHaitian, while her mother was of #Mississauga #Ojibwe and African-American descent. Her mother was known as an excellent weaver and craftswoman, while her father was a gentleman's servant. Her family background inspired Lewis in her later work. By the time Lewis turned 9, both of her parents had died. Her two maternal aunts adopted her and her older half-brother Samuel. Lewis and her aunts sold Ojibwe baskets and other items, such as moccasins and embroidered blouses, to tourists. During this time, Lewis went by her Native American name, Wildfire, her brother was called Sunshine. Her brother paid for her board and education. “Until I was 12 years old I led this wandering life, fishing and swimming and making moccasins. I was then sent to school for three years but was declared to be wild, they could do nothing with me.” She had to transfer. She later went to Oberlin College, one of the first U.S. higher-learning institutions to admit women and people of differing ethnicities. She was still subject to daily racism. She even survived an attack where she was dragged into a field and severely beaten and left for dead. When she later moved to Boston, her art career took off and led her to Rome. Italy’s artistic history and less pronounced racism helped her creativity and mental health. 🇭🇹🇺🇸🎨 #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #MixedGirlMonday #mixedgirls #mixedhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/B5B_eXZF9X4/?igshid=yol8gthvgksw