{"id":40458,"date":"2015-03-16T01:04:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T01:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40458"},"modified":"2015-03-16T01:05:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T01:05:44","slug":"we-are-afro-mexicani-am-blaxican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40458","title":{"rendered":"We are Afro-Mexican|\u201dI am Blaxican\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lifeaskaren.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/12\/we-are-afro-mexicani-am-blaxican\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>We are Afro-Mexican|\u201dI am Blaxican\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lifeaskaren.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Life as Karen: Just setting my soul free.<\/a><br \/>\n2015-03-12<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/about.me\/karensalinasj\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Karen Salinas<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week I decided to interview my dad; my inspiration for this project. The interview was conducted in Spanish, the English version is translated!<\/p>\n<p><em>Esta semana decidi entrevistar a mi papa; la inspiracion para este proyecto.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>K: <em>\u00bfDe donde eres?<\/em><\/strong> Where are you from?<\/p>\n<p>M: Soy de Santo Domingo Armenta, Oaxaca, pero me fui a Acapulco, Guerrero a la edad de 4 a\u00f1os<\/p>\n<p><em>I am from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Santo_Domingo_Armenta\" target=\"_blank\">Santo Domingo Armenta, Oaxaca<\/a>, but I moved to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Acapulco\" target=\"_blank\">Acapulco, Guerrero<\/a>\u00a0 when I was 4 years old.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>K: <em>\u00bfEn que a\u00f1o te venistes a E.U? Y por que?<\/em><\/strong> What year did you migrate to the U.S, and why?<\/p>\n<p><strong>M:<\/strong> Vine a Estados Unidos en 1999, a lo que todos venimos, buscando una vida mejor para nuestras familias<\/p>\n<p>I came to the U.S in the year 1999, for the same reason that we all come here for; a better way of life for our families.<\/p>\n<p><strong>K:\u00a0 <em>\u00bfCuando la gente te pregunta sobre tu origen, que les dices?<\/em><\/strong> When people ask about your nationality, how do you respond?<\/p>\n<p><strong>M:<\/strong> Que soy Black-xican.<\/p>\n<p>That I am Black-xican.<\/p>\n<p><strong>K: <em>\u00bfTe identificas como \u201cnegro\u201d?<\/em><\/strong> Do you identify yourself as \u201cBlack\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><strong>M:<\/strong> Si, me identifico como negro Mexicano<\/p>\n<p><em>Yes, I identify myself as a black- Mexican&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"https:\/\/lifeaskaren.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/12\/we-are-afro-mexicani-am-blaxican\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are Afro-Mexican|\u201dI am Blaxican\u201d Life as Karen: Just setting my soul free. 2015-03-12 Karen Salinas This week I decided to interview my dad; my inspiration for this project. The interview was conducted in Spanish, the English version is translated! Esta semana decidi entrevistar a mi papa; la inspiracion para este proyecto. K: \u00bfDe donde [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,21,14646,8,103,20],"tags":[2343,19621,19620,19622],"class_list":["post-40458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-latincarib","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-usa","tag-afromexicans","tag-karen-salinas","tag-life-as-karen","tag-life-as-karen-just-setting-my-soul-free"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40458","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=40458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}