{"id":20120,"date":"2012-01-24T23:21:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T23:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20120"},"modified":"2016-06-10T18:12:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:12:48","slug":"my-eyes-only-look-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20120","title":{"rendered":"My Eyes Only Look Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/My-Eyes-Only-Look-Out\/dp\/0863222846\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>My Eyes Only Look Out<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandonbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Books<\/a><br \/>\nOctober 2001<br \/>\n236 pages<br \/>\nISBN: 9780863222849<\/p>\n<p><strong>Margaret McCarthy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/My-Eyes-Only-Look-Out\/dp\/0863222846\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51R-78VZMNL._SX309_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Irish people describe the realities of being of mixed race in a mostly white society In the first book of its kind, Irish people describe, in a series of compelling interviews, the realities of being of mixed race in a mostly white society which is only now trying to adjust to the beginnings of the creation of a multicultural society.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst those featured are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrew: &#8220;I\u2019m blessed to be a mixed-race boy.&#8221; Son of a South African mother and English father, he grew up in Galway and now lives in Handsworth, Birmingham.<\/li>\n<li>Teresa: &#8220;I am still an outsider, but now it feels OK.&#8221; Daughter of a German mother and a Nigerian father, Teresa moved as a child to a mainly white area of London, where she was ostracised because of her colour. Now she lives in rural Ireland.<\/li>\n<li>Lorna: &#8220;If you are mixed race, whether it is a quarter of you or whatever, you are black.&#8221; Reared in Ireland, she left for London in her teens, but she always yearned for America, and in her mid-thirties she moved to Miami.<\/li>\n<li>Curtis: &#8220;A black Irishman, that\u2019s me. Nobody can take that away from me.&#8221; A professional footballer with a passion for the game and a deep loyalty to his old clubs and mentors as well as to his present club.<\/li>\n<li>Sean: &#8220;I rarely, if ever, had any trouble on the pitch.&#8221; A Gaelic football and hurling star, he is a graduate in Finance through Irish.<\/li>\n<li>Lisa: &#8220;In my mind I was always Lisa the dancer.&#8221; A bright and popular shop assistant, Lisa\u2019s adoptive parents and natural mother are dead, and she knows little about her natural father, whom she believes was Ghanaian.<\/li>\n<li>Ian: &#8220;Celebrated as &#8220;the first coloured policeman in Ireland&#8221;, Ian experiences confusion about his identity.<\/li>\n<li>Luzveminda: &#8220;I had an ordinary kind of childhood.&#8221; A science graduate, she was crowned <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rose_of_Tralee_(festival)\" target=\"_blank\">Rose of Tralee<\/a> and launched Tr\u00ed\u00b3caire&#8217;s African campaign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Eyes Only Look Out Brandon Books October 2001 236 pages ISBN: 9780863222849 Margaret McCarthy Irish people describe the realities of being of mixed race in a mostly white society In the first book of its kind, Irish people describe, in a series of compelling interviews, the realities of being of mixed race in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,28,8,17],"tags":[9356,246,9355],"class_list":["post-20120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-brandon-books","tag-ireland","tag-margaret-mccarthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20120","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=20120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47515,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20120\/revisions\/47515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}