{"id":40941,"date":"2015-04-22T19:40:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T19:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40941"},"modified":"2016-06-10T17:19:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T17:19:39","slug":"having-mixed-race-kids-doesnt-make-you-non-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40941","title":{"rendered":"Having Mixed-Race Kids Doesn’t Make You Non-White"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having Mixed-Race Kids Doesn’t Make You Non-White<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Mom.Me<\/a>
\n2015-04-20<\/p>\n

Grace Hwang Lynch<\/strong><\/a>, Blogger
\nHapa Mama<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nAdel Vardell photography<\/small><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Do white parents become “less white” when they have non-white kids? That question is burning up my Facebook feed right now, thanks to an essay in the New York Times<\/em><\/a> last week.<\/p>\n

In the piece published in Motherlode, Jack Cheng (a Chinese American man married to a white woman) writes of his wife:<\/p>\n

“She became less white when our son, and then our daughter, were born. I think the first bit of doubt surfaced the day we were on the subway with our newborn and a woman came up to my wife and said: ‘Oh, he’s so cute! When did you adopt him?’ I was livid: Did it not occur to this woman that the father was sitting right next to his wife and child?”<\/p>\n

But that is not becoming less white…<\/p>\n

…While I might be able to code switch and move in different circles and enjoy a variety of cultures, that doesn’t change the fact that my skin is golden, my nose is wide and sometimes people assume I’m a Tiger Mother<\/a>. Or the manicurist. Or that I should be taking their General’s Chicken<\/a> order…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having Mixed-Race Kids Doesn’t Make You Non-White Mom.Me 2015-04-20 Grace Hwang Lynch, Blogger Hapa Mama Adel Vardell photography Do white parents become “less white” when they have non-white kids? That question is burning up my Facebook feed right now, thanks to an essay in the New York Times last week. In the piece published in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,16,414,8,20],"tags":[18923,19956],"class_list":["post-40941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-asia","category-family","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-grace-hwang-lynch","tag-mom-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40941","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=40941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47500,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40941\/revisions\/47500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}