{"id":30037,"date":"2013-04-02T04:24:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T04:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30037"},"modified":"2015-01-28T03:03:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T03:03:10","slug":"i-won%e2%80%99t-get-into-how-i-learned-how-not-to-identify-as-%e2%80%9cmixed%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30037","title":{"rendered":"I won\u2019t get into how I learned how not to identify as \u201cmixed,\u201d&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I won\u2019t get into how I learned how not to identify as \u201cmixed,\u201d how I began to understand that \u201cmixed-race\u201d in my generation was predicated on racial essentialism, false notions of purity, historical inaccuracies and worst of all, a sense of superiority over those who were <em>only<\/em> Black. Soon, I understood \u201cmixed\u201d as an intermediary between Black and White, a cushion almost, between racism and progress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tiana Reid, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=29931\" target=\"_blank\">crossings: undone presents, pyrrhic futures<\/a>,\u201d <em>The State<\/em> (March 30, 2013). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.ae\/crossings-undone-presents-pyrrhic-futures\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thestate.ae\/crossings-undone-presents-pyrrhic-futures\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won\u2019t get into how I learned how not to identify as \u201cmixed,\u201d how I began to understand that \u201cmixed-race\u201d in my generation was predicated on racial essentialism, false notions of purity, historical inaccuracies and worst of all, a sense of superiority over those who were only Black. Soon, I understood \u201cmixed\u201d as an intermediary [&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":[14228,14229],"class_list":["post-30037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-the-state","tag-tiana-reid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30037","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=30037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}