Supplemental Post #1: "My 6-year-old son is obsessed with Michael Jackson"

Michael Jackson's ambiguous relationship with race is a complicated struggle that mixed-race people know very well and though he is dead, the legacy of his star career lives on. This is illustrated greatly in a Buzzfeed article by Mira Jacob titled "37 Difficult Questions From My Mixed-Race Son", in which Jacob wrestles with the incessant questions of her six-year-old son who is "obsessed" with Michael Jackson. The article deals with the difficult positioning of a mixed-race child in the American pop culture landscape as he learns how to navigate his own identity through the lens of Jackson's experience.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mirajacob/questions-from-my-mixed-race-son#.uePA5d9nd