{"id":41180,"date":"2015-05-21T16:53:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T16:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41180"},"modified":"2017-04-16T23:17:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T23:17:04","slug":"this-mocha-caramel-honey-pos%ef%bb%bft-racial-fantasy-is-making-me-sick%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41180","title":{"rendered":"This Mocha-Caramel-Honey Pos\ufefft-Racial Fantasy Is Making Me Sick\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/sharonchang\/this-mocha-caramel-honey-post-racial-fantasy-is-making-me-si\" target=\"_blank\">This Mocha-Caramel-Honey Post-Racial Fantasy Is Making Me Sick<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\" target=\"_blank\">BuzzFeed<\/a><br \/>\n2015-05-21<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/multiasianfamilies.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon Chang<\/a><\/strong>, BuzzFeed Contributor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/sharonchang\/this-mocha-caramel-honey-post-racial-fantasy-is-making-me-si\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ak-hdl.buzzfed.com\/static\/2015-05\/14\/13\/enhanced\/webdr09\/enhanced-buzz-wide-22184-1431625458-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><em>Illustration by Judith Kim for BuzzFeed<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>As a mixed-race woman, the defining question of my life has not been \u201cWho am I?\u201d but \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/multiasianfamilies.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/what-are-you-thats-none-of-your-business.html\" target=\"_blank\">What are you?<\/a>\u201d I get it everywhere, from all races. Recently it\u2019s been mostly from Asian immigrants. <em>You Chinese?<\/em> Last month a black guy walked up to me while I was pumping gas. <em>Man! How do you people do that international thing?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an invasive line of questioning, under the guise of a friendly compliment. \u201cYou know how you could look more Asian?\u201d my white boss once asked as I clocked out of work. \u201cIf you cut your bangs like this and did your makeup like this\u2026\u201d My acupuncturist, meanwhile, thinks I look more Asian in a ponytail.<\/p>\n<p>Most women are accustomed to having their physical appearance treated like public property up for consumption. But when it comes to mixed-race women, our looks are quantified, measured and divvied up, all the way back to conception. How we were cooked up, what our ingredients are, and why we taste so good \u2014 people are entitled to know all of it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;If 2050 is the year that 400 years of racism ends in one fell, photogenic swoop, then sure, I can\u2019t wait. But forgive me if our collective crushes on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rashida_Jones\" target=\"_blank\">Rashida Jones<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lolo_Jones\" target=\"_blank\">Lolo Jones<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norah_Jones\" target=\"_blank\">Norah Jones<\/a> don\u2019t inspire hope. Beauty is a cultural value whose definition has changed dramatically over time. But science and society have a long history of justifying our shifting tastes when it comes to race. White supremacy has been bolstered through race-based compulsory sterilization, anti-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> laws, and likening people of color to animals&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/sharonchang\/this-mocha-caramel-honey-post-racial-fantasy-is-making-me-si\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a mixed-race woman, the defining question of my life has not been \u201cWho am I?\u201d but \u201cWhat are you?\u201d I get it everywhere, from all races. Recently it\u2019s been mostly from Asian immigrants. You Chinese? Last month a black guy walked up to me while I was pumping gas. Man! How do you people do that international thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8,4481,20,25],"tags":[13345,14613,16773],"class_list":["post-41180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-social-work","category-usa","category-women","tag-buzzfeed","tag-sharon-chang","tag-sharon-h-chang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41180","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=41180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53529,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41180\/revisions\/53529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}