{"id":38487,"date":"2014-11-25T16:44:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T16:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38487"},"modified":"2014-11-25T22:07:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T22:07:49","slug":"people-would-call-me-mulatto-all-the-time-my-dad-was-like-dont-let-people-call-you-that-say-that-youre-mixed-say-that-youre-biracial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38487","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPeople would call me mulatto all the time. My dad was like: \u201cDon\u2019t let people call you that. Say that you\u2019re mixed. Say that you\u2019re biracial.\u201d\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cPeople would call me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a> all the time. My dad was like: \u201cDon\u2019t let people call you that. Say that you\u2019re mixed. Say that you\u2019re biracial.\u201d My parents were really careful with me. They were clear that you can\u2019t separate out the two sides. You\u2019d be denying half of yourself if you did.\u201d \u2014Amber Gray<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alexis Soloski, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=38458\" target=\"_blank\">Returning to an \u2018Impossible\u2019 Role<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>, April 24, 2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/27\/theater\/amber-gray-on-an-octoroon-at-soho-rep.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/27\/theater\/amber-gray-on-an-octoroon-at-soho-rep.html<\/a>,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeople would call me mulatto all the time. My dad was like: \u201cDon\u2019t let people call you that. Say that you\u2019re mixed. Say that you\u2019re biracial.\u201d My parents were really careful with me. They were clear that you can\u2019t separate out the two sides. You\u2019d be denying half of yourself if you did.\u201d \u2014Amber Gray [&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":[18489,18490,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-38487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-alexis-soloski","tag-amber-gray","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38487","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=38487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}