{"id":29564,"date":"2014-03-22T15:19:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T15:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29564"},"modified":"2017-03-15T20:34:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T20:34:12","slug":"half-caste-on-the-idea-that-mixed-race-africans-are-diluted-africans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29564","title":{"rendered":"Bi-racial Africans: \u201cdiluted\u201d Africans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thisisafrica.me\/half-caste-mixed-race-diluted-african\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bi-racial Africans: \u201cdiluted\u201d Africans?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisafrica.me\/about\" target=\"_blank\">This is Africa<\/a><br \/>\nAmsterdam, The Netherlands<br \/>\n2014-03-22<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/melindaembrace\" target=\"_blank\">Melinda Ozongwu<\/a><\/strong>, Writer Urban Culture<\/p>\n<p><em>One&#8217;s nationality can be determined by where you were born, where your parents are from, where you hold citizenship &#8211; politics, geography, circumstance and even choice. There is nothing complicated about where I am from, until I\u2019m challenged to prove it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a bi-racial African, defining and proving how Ugandan I am is something I am faced with quite often.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve just become more tolerant of other people\u2019s opinions of my identity<br \/>\nIn the past when confronted with such a challenge, my sensitivity and emotions would affect my participation in the conversation. I would either defend myself by launching into a soliloquy in my mother tongue to prove that I belonged or, more often, I would simply remove myself from the conversation for fear of landing myself with a charge of aggravated assault. I have since matured, or maybe I\u2019ve just become more tolerant of other people\u2019s opinions of my identity. At any rate, I no longer feel the need to prove myself to anyone, so the most recent dispute of my Ugandan-ness couldn\u2019t have come at a better time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;This isn\u2019t a woe-is-me story, I don\u2019t feel hindered by the diversity in my heritage, but I do feel that not acknowledging challenges and obstacles faced by bi-racial Africans implies that there are none, or that all Africans are equally accepted, no matter how they look or sound. <strong>On many levels, the definition of \u201cAfrican\u201d has ample space to be broadened, and somewhere within that definition one should find bi-racial Africans too<\/strong>, because there is a tendency to cast us aside when we\u2019re not being put on a pedestal&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thisisafrica.me\/half-caste-mixed-race-diluted-african\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One&#8217;s nationality can be determined by where you were born, where your parents are from, where you hold citizenship &#8211; politics, geography, circumstance and even choice. There is nothing complicated about where I am from, until I\u2019m challenged to prove it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,125,8,394],"tags":[14014,12215,14015],"class_list":["post-29564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-melinda-ozongwu","tag-this-is-africa","tag-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29564","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=29564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52521,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29564\/revisions\/52521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}