{"id":28685,"date":"2013-02-11T02:05:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T02:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=28685"},"modified":"2013-02-11T04:08:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T04:08:28","slug":"i-would-say-i-consider-myself-more-black-than-white-but-more-biracial-than-anything-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=28685","title":{"rendered":"I would say I consider myself more black than white, but more biracial than anything else&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Well, I would say I consider myself more black than white, but more biracial than anything else&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;My identity is biracial. But I say that I\u2019m more black than white because for a lot of biracial people I think this sort of an attempt to balance both parts of their heritage with equal weight.\u00a0<strong> In my life they\u2019re not equal.<\/strong> The black side attempts to dominate. And I say that because for me, being a biracial person is to be a person of color in America. And so I tend to identify more with my non-white side than with my white side. But I say that I\u2019m more biracial than anything else because my identity and my orientation as a biracial person seem to trump it all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>..I think it goes back to the point I was making earlier, about that for me, to be biracial is being a person of color, you know, in society. If you think about&#8230; going back to the days of segregation, there was no \u201c<em>biracial\u201d <\/em>water fountain in this country. You had \u201cwhite\u201d water fountains and you had \u201ccolored\u201d water fountains and if you were biracial, you drank from the \u201ccolored\u201d water fountain. You didn\u2019t have the option of saying, \u201cOh, I\u2019m half-and-half so I can drink from both.\u201d That\u2019s just not how it worked. So that for me, to be biracial is to be a person of color.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014Elliot Lewis, author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4292\" target=\"_blank\">Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fanshen Cox and Heidi Durrow, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkshoe.com\/talkshoe\/web\/episodePop.jsp?episodeId=128390&amp;cmd=epipop\" target=\"_blank\">Episode 62 &#8211; Mixed Chicks Chat with \u2018Fade\u2019 author Elliott Lewis<\/a>\u201d, <em>Mixed Chicks Chat<\/em>, (August 8, 2008). <a href=\"http:\/\/recordings.talkshoe.com\/TC-34257\/TS-128390.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/recordings.talkshoe.com\/TC-34257\/TS-128390.mp3<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkshoe.com\/talkshoe\/web\/audioPop.jsp?episodeId=128390&amp;cmd=apop\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.talkshoe.com\/talkshoe\/web\/audioPop.jsp?episodeId=128390&amp;cmd=apop<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I would say I consider myself more black than white, but more biracial than anything else&#8230; &#8230;My identity is biracial. But I say that I\u2019m more black than white because for a lot of biracial people I think this sort of an attempt to balance both parts of their heritage with equal weight.\u00a0 In [&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":[13608,118,65,73],"class_list":["post-28685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-elliot-lewis","tag-fanshen-cox","tag-heidi-durrow","tag-mixed-chicks-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28685","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=28685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}