{"id":29702,"date":"2013-03-20T03:36:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T03:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29702"},"modified":"2013-10-31T20:17:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T20:17:24","slug":"ultimately-though-i-identify-as-a-daughter-of-the-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29702","title":{"rendered":"Ultimately though, I identify as a daughter of the Diaspora."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Ultimately though, I identify as a daughter of the Diaspora. The descendants of the millions of Africans taken to the new world share a similar heritage to mine; black African and white European, and I feel an affinity with these fellow Diasporians. I reject a racist hierarchy of value and worth and refuse to position myself as separate from other black people in a bid to try and position myself that little bit closer to whiteness. The historical processes, of which we Diasporians are a part, stem from the same source: the European slave trade and the subsequent European colonisation of Africa. <strong>And it is for this reason that I locate myself within this historical continuum rather than buy into an ideologically problematic, a-historical approach which constructs being \u2018mixed-race\u2019 as something new.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Emma Dabiri, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=29501\" target=\"_blank\">Why I see myself as a daughter of the Diaspora rather than mixed-race<\/a>,\u201d <em>Black Girl Dancing at Lughnasa<\/em> (March 12, 2013). <a href=\"http:\/\/thediasporadiva.tumblr.com\/post\/45223779733\/why-i-see-myself-as-a-daughter-of-the-diaspora-rather\">http:\/\/thediasporadiva.tumblr.com\/post\/45223779733\/why-i-see-myself-as-a-daughter-of-the-diaspora-rather<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultimately though, I identify as a daughter of the Diaspora. The descendants of the millions of Africans taken to the new world share a similar heritage to mine; black African and white European, and I feel an affinity with these fellow Diasporians. I reject a racist hierarchy of value and worth and refuse to position [&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":[13992,13842],"class_list":["post-29702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-black-girl-dancing-at-lughnasa","tag-emma-dabiri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29702","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=29702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}