{"id":39830,"date":"2015-02-05T02:02:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T02:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39830"},"modified":"2015-02-05T02:02:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T02:02:17","slug":"qa-with-carlos-e-cortes-author-of-rose-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39830","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A with Carlos E. Cort\u00e9s, author of \u201cRose Hill\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heydaybooks.com\/qa-with-carlos-e-cortes-author-of-rose-hill\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Q&amp;A with Carlos E. Cort\u00e9s, author of \u201cRose Hill\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heydaybooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Heyday<\/a><br \/>\n2012-03-21<\/p>\n<p><em>A poignant memoirist, <a href=\"http:\/\/carlosecortes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos E. Cort\u00e9s<\/a> brings his past to life in <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=26705\" target=\"_blank\">Rose Hill: An Intermarriage before its Time<\/a><em>, portraying multiracial relationships and the impact they had on the development of his identity. Sometimes hilarious and at times tragic, this powerful narrative takes the reader on a journey of self-realization that speaks to us on both personal and universal levels.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s start at the beginning. Why did you write your memoir?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Actually, it started as a gift to my family. I simply wanted to chronicle family stories and personal recollections in a roughly chronological format, with the hope that others in the family would later add their own stories. I wasn\u2019t thinking about publishing it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Let me change the subject. Multiracial and culturally mixed families are much more common now than while you were growing up. Do you think it\u2019s still just as difficult for a child to negotiate a mixed cultural background?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hope not. I think not. My mixed-identity experience of growing up was set in a particular time and place: racially-segregated, religiously-divided, class conscious early post-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\">World War II<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kansas_City,_Missouri\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City, Missouri<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve interacted with lots of young people, including high school students, who have seen \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/events.stanford.edu\/events\/29\/2957\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Conversation with Alana<\/a>.\u201d Those interactions have made it clear to me that having a mixed background can still involve special challenges. However, America today is much more open to \u201cmixed\u201d people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"https:\/\/heydaybooks.com\/qa-with-carlos-e-cortes-author-of-rose-hill\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q&amp;A with Carlos E. Cort\u00e9s, author of \u201cRose Hill\u201d Heyday 2012-03-21 A poignant memoirist, Carlos E. Cort\u00e9s brings his past to life in Rose Hill: An Intermarriage before its Time, portraying multiracial relationships and the impact they had on the development of his identity. Sometimes hilarious and at times tragic, this powerful narrative takes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,13743,14646,8,20],"tags":[6393,6392,12902],"class_list":["post-39830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-interviews","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-carlos-cortes","tag-carlos-e-cortes","tag-heyday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39830","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=39830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}