{"id":33823,"date":"2013-09-23T03:52:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T03:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33823"},"modified":"2016-12-14T22:16:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T22:16:00","slug":"in-a-black-and-white-society-i-am-the-grey-i-am-other-i-am-what-cannot-be-clearly-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33823","title":{"rendered":"In a black-and-white society, I am the grey; I am other; I am what cannot be clearly defined."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI always joked with my friends that I was \u2018light\u2019 not \u2018white.\u2019 Half Latino and half white. Just what does that mean? When the name Bengochea precedes me, I am always asked to explain. You don\u2019t necessarily guess my Cuban roots by looking at me, but maybe you should look harder. As a person of mixed race\/ethnicity, I have always wrestled with my identity. In certain contexts I feel that I am not Hispanic enough, and in others I feel like I am not expressing myself completely unless I reference my mixed ethnicity. As I get older, I become more comfortable in these situations and learn to embrace the fullness of who I am. In a black-and-white society, I am the grey; I am other; I am what cannot be clearly defined.\u201d \u2014Matt Bengochea, Project Coordinator, President&#8217;s Office<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/diversity.risd.edu\/participants2013.php\" target=\"_blank\">RISDiversity: Community Narratives Project: 2013 Participants<\/a>,\u201d <em>Rhode Island School of Design<\/em>, (Providence, Rhode Island, 2013). <a href=\"http:\/\/diversity.risd.edu\/participants2013.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/diversity.risd.edu\/participants2013.php<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI always joked with my friends that I was \u2018light\u2019 not \u2018white.\u2019 Half Latino and half white. Just what does that mean? When the name Bengochea precedes me, I am always asked to explain. You don\u2019t necessarily guess my Cuban roots by looking at me, but maybe you should look harder. As a person of [&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":[15909,5567,15910],"class_list":["post-33823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-matt-bengochea","tag-rhode-island-school-of-design","tag-risdiversity-community-narratives-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33823","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=33823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50653,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33823\/revisions\/50653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}