{"id":41025,"date":"2015-05-04T18:17:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T18:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=41025"},"modified":"2016-06-18T03:46:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T03:46:35","slug":"lopsided-afro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41025","title":{"rendered":"Lopsided Afro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mixedhumans.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/04\/lopsided-afro\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Lopsided Afro<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mixedhumans.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Humans ~ Reflections on occupying a space of inbetweenness. Persistently grappling with identity.<\/a><br \/>\n2015-05-04<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianIKamanzi\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Brian Kamanzi<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Cape Town, South Africa<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Self Determination.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I never realised how practical those words would become for my life until I started to explore the world beyond the safety of my University. Work spaces where the politics of what is considered respectable are carried out with almost total compliance without anyone mentioning a word, without anyone signing a single suggestion to law.<\/p>\n<p>It was and is <em>suffocating<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I must admit though, this moment revived memories of my childhood.<br \/>\nBeing a child of the \u201ccolonies\u201d our British style schools and accompanying rules really struggled to accommodate students who just didn\u2019t quite fit the profile.<\/p>\n<p>My hair was just a disaster unless kept short.<br \/>\nIn fact, my Dad\u2019s distate for men with anything like long hair rang in stark synchornisation with a reality and imagination that reinforced in my mind that the very hair that came out of my head was essentially&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/mixedhumans.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/04\/lopsided-afro\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lopsided Afro Mixed Humans ~ Reflections on occupying a space of inbetweenness. Persistently grappling with identity. 2015-05-04 Brian Kamanzi Cape Town, South Africa Self Determination. I never realised how practical those words would become for my life until I started to explore the world beyond the safety of my University. Work spaces where the politics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,395,8,520],"tags":[17373,19038,19037],"class_list":["post-41025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-south-africa","tag-brian-kamanzi","tag-mixed-humans","tag-mixed-humans-reflections-on-occupying-a-space-of-inbetweenness-persistently-grappling-with-identity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41025","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=41025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47750,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41025\/revisions\/47750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}