{"id":41127,"date":"2015-05-14T19:06:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T19:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=41127"},"modified":"2017-01-15T02:18:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T02:18:30","slug":"i-see-my-mixed-race-as-being-part-of-a-broader-black-experience-or-within-the-african-diaspora-i-dont-see-that-as-a-white-experience-or-an-austrian-experience-just-because-i-see-myself-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41127","title":{"rendered":"I see my mixed-race as being part of a broader black experience, or within the African diaspora. I don\u2019t see that as a white experience or an Austrian experience, just because I see myself as a black woman or a black person within a place where it\u2019s predominantly white."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWell, I\u2019ve always identified myself as black&#8230; and mixed kind of simultaneously. But as far as my identity, I see my mixed-race as being part of a broader black experience, or within the African diaspora. I don\u2019t see that as a white experience or an Austrian experience, just because I see myself as a black woman or a black person within a place where it\u2019s predominantly white. So I know that whiteness is not something I\u2019m a part of, even though my mother is white and I have a cultural background as far as my Austrian side. But, to identify as white or solely as mixed without understanding how much my black experience and my blackness plays a part in my life, to me, just personally, I couldn&#8217;t do that.&#8221; \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anninachirade\" target=\"_blank\">Annina Chirade<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kim Chakanetsa, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41108\" target=\"_blank\">Being \u2018Mixed Race&#8217;: Kira Lea Dargin and Annina Chirade<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Conversation on BBC World Service<\/em>, May 11, 2015. (00:14:20-00:14:38). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p02qm960\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p02qm960<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWell, I\u2019ve always identified myself as black&#8230; and mixed kind of simultaneously. But as far as my identity, I see my mixed-race as being part of a broader black experience, or within the African diaspora. I don\u2019t see that as a white experience or an Austrian experience, just because I see myself as a black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20074,20072,20075,5628],"class_list":["post-41127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-annina-chirade","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-kim-chakanetsa","tag-the-conversation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41127","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=41127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51170,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41127\/revisions\/51170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}