{"id":23796,"date":"2012-06-17T23:45:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T23:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23796"},"modified":"2012-06-27T03:28:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T03:28:05","slug":"how-obama-became-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23796","title":{"rendered":"How Obama became black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/how-obama-became-black\/2012\/06\/14\/gJQA8CnKdV_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>How Obama became black<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2011-06-14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidmaraniss.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>David Maraniss<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>He was too dark in Indonesia. A hapa child \u2014 half and half \u2014 in Hawaii. Multicultural in Los Angeles. An \u201cInvisible Man\u201d in New York. And finally, Barack Obama was black on the South Side of Chicago. This journey of racial self-discovery and reinvention is chronicled in David Maraniss\u2019s biography, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=23771\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama: The Story<\/a>,\u201d to be published June 19. These excerpts trace the young Obama\u2019s arc toward black identity, through his words and experiences, and through the eyes of those who knew him best.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cHow come his mother\u2019s skin is bright while her son\u2019s is way darker?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everything about Barry seemed different to his classmates and first-grade teacher, Israela Pareira, at S.D. Katolik Santo Fransiskus in Jakarta, Indonesia. He came in wearing shoes and socks, with long pants, a black belt and a white shirt neatly tucked in. The other boys wore short pants above the knee, and they often left their flip-flops or sandals outside the classroom and studied in bare feet. Barry was the only one who could not speak Bahasa Indonesia that first year. Ms. Pareira was the only one who understood his English. He was a fast learner, but in the meantime some boys communicated with him in a sign language they jokingly called \u201cBahasa tarzan.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/how-obama-became-black\/2012\/06\/14\/gJQA8CnKdV_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Obama became black The Washington Post 2011-06-14 David Maraniss He was too dark in Indonesia. A hapa child \u2014 half and half \u2014 in Hawaii. Multicultural in Los Angeles. An \u201cInvisible Man\u201d in New York. And finally, Barack Obama was black on the South Side of Chicago. This journey of racial self-discovery and reinvention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,1245,8,20],"tags":[11051,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-23796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-david-maraniss","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23796","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=23796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}