ABSTRACT
In the Feeling Race chapter, each author explores the foundation of their racial identities and relationships to race. Using the autoethnographic method, each researcher reveals race as an active component of experiences and interactions that impacts their understanding of themselves and their relationship to race and racism as they move from adolescence to adulthood. The authors’ stories illustrate how these experiences were shaped by the early post-Civil Rights era, a period when the implications of white racial dominance and not-white racial subordination were both widely recognized and widely challenged. Amidst this backdrop of significant racial transformation accompanied by fierce white resistance to such transformation, the authors came to understand what it meant to be Black, white and bi-racial.
