{"id":17805,"date":"2011-11-09T02:18:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T02:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=17805"},"modified":"2011-11-09T02:19:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T02:19:03","slug":"playwright-discusses-biracialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=17805","title":{"rendered":"Playwright discusses biracialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thedartmouth.com\/2006\/01\/18\/news\/playwright\" target=\"_blank\">Playwright discusses biracialism<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedartmouth.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Dartmouth<\/a><br \/>\n2006-01-18<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ashley Zuzek<\/strong>, The Dartmouth Staff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stg.brown.edu\/projects\/undergroundri\/people\/index2.php?id=70\" target=\"_blank\">William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.<\/a>, author of the play &#8220;Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers,&#8221; discussed the psychology of racial duality during a Tuesday night discussion at the Hopkins Center and emphasized the need for Americans of mixed blood to identify with a single race rather than getting lost between the two.<\/p>\n<p>Having mixed blood, Yellow Robe said, &#8220;has created a psychology that no one has dealt with. People go into this panic of being too native or not being native enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yellow Robe, who is both Native American and African American, described the difficulty of being biracial during his discussion, &#8220;Claiming Our Relations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Yellow Robe identifies more with his Native American ancestry than his African American ancestry, he is not ashamed of his mixed race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I honor it and I never deny it,&#8221; he said. However, he cautioned that people of mixed race should not &#8220;straddle both paths,&#8221; and that he has never regretted identifying with his Native American side&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thedartmouth.com\/2006\/01\/18\/news\/playwright\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playwright discusses biracialism The Dartmouth 2006-01-18 Ashley Zuzek, The Dartmouth Staff William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., author of the play &#8220;Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers,&#8221; discussed the psychology of racial duality during a Tuesday night discussion at the Hopkins Center and emphasized the need for Americans of mixed blood to identify with a single race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,3015,20],"tags":[8199,1385,8197],"class_list":["post-17805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-ashley-zuzek","tag-the-dartmouth","tag-william-s-yellow-robe-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}