{"id":36412,"date":"2014-05-08T00:44:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T00:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36412"},"modified":"2014-05-08T00:44:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T00:44:22","slug":"reflections-of-an-undercover-black-girl-from-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36412","title":{"rendered":"Reflections of an Undercover Black Girl from San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.50shadesofblack.com\/blog\/undercover-black-girl\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Reflections of an Undercover Black Girl from San Francisco<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.50shadesofblack.com\" target=\"_blank\">50 Shades of Black: Sexuality and Skin Tone in the Formation of Identity<\/a><br \/>\n2014-05-07<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stacy Jethroe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My skin is tan. My hair is wavy. In Nina Simone\u2019s \u201cFour Women\u201d I might be considered a Saffonia, though my father was neither rich nor white.<\/p>\n<p>As a child living in a 1970\u2019s San Francisco, I looked exactly like what I was: a nappy-headed mixed child. Born to a fair-skinned, Caucasian mother and a medium-toned Black\/Italian\/Cherokee father, I have been told I look Brazilian or Cape Verdean or just Plain Ol&#8217; Regular White Girl. As I aged, my skin naturally lightened and my hair relaxed of its own accord.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of nine, I moved to the Midwest. I wasn\u2019t exactly Black or White or what was easily recognized, and my racial backstory became a constant topic. As a nappy-headed mixed child in San Francisco, I never lied about my ethnicity; there was no need for it. But, living in the Midwest, even my maternal grandmother held issue with my color; she lied to protect herself against the judgment she believed would be passed by others and, I believe, her own loathing of her non-White grandchild. Following suit, I began to tell the same lie. I hated the curliness of my hair and spent hours each day straightening it, trying to look White. White is right\u2026right? I don\u2019t believe that now, but I believed it then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.50shadesofblack.com\/blog\/undercover-black-girl\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections of an Undercover Black Girl from San Francisco 50 Shades of Black: Sexuality and Skin Tone in the Formation of Identity 2014-05-07 Stacy Jethroe My skin is tan. My hair is wavy. In Nina Simone\u2019s \u201cFour Women\u201d I might be considered a Saffonia, though my father was neither rich nor white. As a child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,10],"tags":[17313,17312,17314],"class_list":["post-36412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-50-shades-of-black","tag-50-shades-of-black-sexuality-and-skin-tone-in-the-formation-of-identity","tag-stacy-jethroe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36412","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=36412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}