“What are you?’’’
“Are you adopted?”
“What are you mixed with?”
Many photos and stories submitted to “Historically Black,” The Washington Post Tumblr project, have touched on what it means to identify as a particular race and ethnic background. Throughout this project, multiple stories surfaced a theme that pointed to an ongoing internal and external conflict based on the societal criteria that deemed a person “black.” These stories identified the struggle to understand the judgment — by both black and non-black communities — based on the way one dresses, speaks and acts.
This has led to a hard, and conflicting, question: What does it mean to be “black enough” in modern America?