{"id":27130,"date":"2012-12-27T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27130"},"modified":"2013-09-29T00:49:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T00:49:54","slug":"choice%e2%80%94especially-around-identity%e2%80%94is-a-fascinating-subject-in-and-of-itself-how-we-choose-to-identify-is-intensely-personal-for-many-and-perhaps-particularly-perplexing-for-some-mixe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27130","title":{"rendered":"I have always held my Blackness as the centre of gravity\u2014the place from which all my many other identities flow."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Choice\u2014especially around identity\u2014is a fascinating subject in and of itself. How we choose to identify is intensely personal for many, and perhaps particularly perplexing for some Mixed-race identified people, as it inherently calls into question our notions of \u201crace\u201d. Having said that, I can only speak for myself, and I have chosen to identify as Black-Mixed. Although how I have identified in the past has evolved, and will most like continue to do so into the future, I have always held my Blackness as the centre of gravity\u2014the place from which all my many other identities flow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rema Tavares, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=27046\" target=\"_blank\">A Curious Confluence: Where Racism &amp; Privilege Collide<\/a>,\u201d <em>(<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1<\/span>)ne Drop Project<\/em>. (December 20, 2012). <a href=\"http:\/\/1nedrop.com\/a-curious-confluence-where-racism-privilege-collide-by-rema-tavares\/\">http:\/\/1nedrop.com\/a-curious-confluence-where-racism-privilege-collide-by-rema-tavares\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choice\u2014especially around identity\u2014is a fascinating subject in and of itself. How we choose to identify is intensely personal for many, and perhaps particularly perplexing for some Mixed-race identified people, as it inherently calls into question our notions of \u201crace\u201d. Having said that, I can only speak for myself, and I have chosen to identify as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9247,13139],"class_list":["post-27130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-1ne-drop-project","tag-rema-tavares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27130","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=27130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}