{"id":34460,"date":"2013-10-24T22:03:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T22:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34460"},"modified":"2013-10-24T22:03:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T22:03:20","slug":"mixed-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34460","title":{"rendered":"Mixed messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/queensjournal.ca\/story\/2013-10-22\/editorials\/mixed-messages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed messages<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queensjournal.ca\" target=\"_blank\">The Queen\u2019s Journal<\/a><br \/>\nQueen\u2019s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/queensjournal.ca\/story\/2013-10-22\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 141, Issue 16, 2013-10-22<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/queensjournal.ca\/author\/olivia-bowden\/\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Bowden<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant News Editor<\/p>\n<p>Many mixed race people, myself included, have trouble defining our ethnic identity.<\/p>\n<p>As a child, I\u2019d put on my mother\u2019s makeup and be confused as to why her dark brown foundation didn\u2019t blend with my pale skin. A family reunion with my dad\u2019s side felt strange as I looked nothing like the blonde hair, blue-eyed bunch.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides of my family, South Asian and Anglo-Saxon, have thoroughly accepted that I don\u2019t reflect either side in my appearance. But, the question remains, where do I belong?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;It\u2019s sometimes unsettling when people ask me where I\u2019m from. While it might seem like an innocent question, it makes me feel like I have to accept a racial label. I\u2019ve completed many surveys where I\u2019ve had to state my race as \u201cother\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s especially sickening when I\u2019ve been told that I am \u201clucky\u201d to pass as white. Some people feel comfortable saying racist comments in reaction to my appearance. I\u2019ve been told that I\u2019m \u201cpretty, for a brown girl\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Looking \u201cwhite\u201d does not mean I am okay with racism&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/queensjournal.ca\/story\/2013-10-22\/editorials\/mixed-messages\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed messages The Queen\u2019s Journal Queen\u2019s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada Volume 141, Issue 16, 2013-10-22 Olivia Bowden, Assistant News Editor Many mixed race people, myself included, have trouble defining our ethnic identity. As a child, I\u2019d put on my mother\u2019s makeup and be confused as to why her dark brown foundation didn\u2019t blend with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,19,8],"tags":[16232,16231,16230],"class_list":["post-34460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-canada","category-media-archive","tag-olivia-bowden","tag-queens-journal","tag-the-queens-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34460","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=34460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}