{"id":41823,"date":"2015-07-20T02:06:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T02:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41823"},"modified":"2017-02-24T19:13:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T19:13:31","slug":"i-was-not-allowed-any-identity-at-all-that-is-very-very-damaging-for-the-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41823","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI was not allowed any identity at all. That is very, very damaging for the soul.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Nuns told her that \u201cno man will ever want you, because you\u2019re black\u201d; a career counsellor said she should \u201cconsider taking man friends\u201d to support herself. \u201cI was told I wouldn\u2019t amount to anything and should consider prostitution,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/search\/search-7.1213540?tag_person=Rosemary%20Adaser&amp;article=true\" target=\"_blank\">[Rosemary] Adaser<\/a> says.<\/p>\n<p>Her black background was vilified and even denied, she says, and she was constantly told that she would never be wanted in Irish society. \u201cI was not allowed any identity at all. That is very, very damaging for the soul.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KittyHollandIT\" target=\"_blank\">Kitty Holland<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41801\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Race Irish: \u2018We were the dust to be swept away\u2019<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Irish Times<\/em>, July 18, 2015.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/social-affairs\/mixed-race-irish-we-were-the-dust-to-be-swept-away-1.2287196\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/social-affairs\/mixed-race-irish-we-were-the-dust-to-be-swept-away-1.2287196<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuns told her that \u201cno man will ever want you, because you\u2019re black\u201d; a career counsellor said she should \u201cconsider taking man friends\u201d to support herself. \u201cI was told I wouldn\u2019t amount to anything and should consider prostitution,\u201d [Rosemary] Adaser says. Her black background was vilified and even denied, she says, and she was constantly [&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":[20457,16529,20459,16526],"class_list":["post-41823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-kitty-holland","tag-rosemary-adaser","tag-rosemary-c-adaser","tag-the-irish-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41823","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=41823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41824,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41823\/revisions\/41824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}