Marginal Eyes
A Mixed American's Struggle for Identity in a Nation of Black and White
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At the age of ten, Aaron's childhood within a diverse community shifted abruptly when his family moved to small-town Indiana. There, racist mentalities stereotyped him for his Mixed features and heritage. Marginalized for the first time as a Black person within his new, overwhelmingly European-American community, he learned to hide parts of himself, hoping to escape harsh racial prejudices. Driven by fear down a road to build a "pure" identity beyond ridicule, desperate to relieve the deadly shame so many of us feel for our humanity, and pursued by a heart-numbing perfectionism that drove him ...
At the age of ten, Aaron's childhood within a diverse community shifted abruptly when his family moved to small-town Indiana. There, racist mentalities stereotyped him for his Mixed features and heritage. Marginalized for the first time as a Black person within his new, overwhelmingly European-American community, he learned to hide parts of himself, hoping to escape harsh racial prejudices. Driven by fear down a road to build a "pure" identity beyond ridicule, desperate to relieve the deadly shame so many of us feel for our humanity, and pursued by a heart-numbing perfectionism that drove him to extremes, Aaron pursued varied paths in politics, religion, artistry, and education, seeking the perfect life to lead. The utter brokenness, great generosity, and inner voice he met along the way brought the truth that his own imperfect humanity, the person he had always been, was all he ever needed to be. AARON DOUGLAS KELLER recounts the struggles, adventures, and lessons of his journey to self-remembrance, acceptance, and celebration in this revealing, surprising, and inspiring memoir accompanied by insightful social, philosohical, spiritual, and psychological commentary. Along with renewed happiness and freedom, he gained empathy for what so many of us grieve: inner clarity and peace we lost, when our nuanced humanity was covered by racism, religious ideology, nationalism, and other black-and-white mentalities. Aaron shares his story of rediscovery of self as well as trauma recovery, through the lens of his escape from toxic US racial dynamics, along with insights he gained about safeguarding our humanity from inhuman forces in American culture.
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