{"id":39264,"date":"2015-01-04T20:16:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T20:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39264"},"modified":"2015-01-04T20:16:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T20:16:45","slug":"i-claim-black-because-my-light-skin-doesnt-protect-me-from-misogynoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39264","title":{"rendered":"I Claim Black Because My Light Skin Doesn&#8217;t Protect Me from Misogynoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forharriet.com\/2015\/01\/i-claim-black-because-my-light-skin.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>I Claim Black Because My Light Skin Doesn&#8217;t Protect Me from Misogynoir<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forharriet.com\" target=\"_blank\">For Harriet<\/a><br \/>\n2015-01-03<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autostraddle.com\/author\/hellyeswinnie\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kesiena Boom<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Brighton, England<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am a mixed race woman. One of my parents is Black and the other is white. I identify as both mixed race and as Black. I do so because of the legacy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one drop rule<\/a> and because I cannot access whiteness as it is associated with being \u2018pure\u2019 and I am clearly \u2018tainted\u2019 with my racially ambiguous looks. My afro, my golden skin, my thick figure and my full lips combine to give me an appearance that is notably not white. I feel connected to Blackness in a way I cannot feel towards whiteness. Despite being mainly raised by my white parent, it is not in whiteness that I find my home&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forharriet.com\/2015\/01\/i-claim-black-because-my-light-skin.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Claim Black Because My Light Skin Doesn&#8217;t Protect Me from Misogynoir For Harriet 2015-01-03 Kesiena Boom Brighton, England I am a mixed race woman. One of my parents is Black and the other is white. I identify as both mixed race and as Black. I do so because of the legacy of the one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8],"tags":[18377,18982],"class_list":["post-39264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","tag-for-harriet","tag-kesiena-boom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39264","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=39264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}