{"id":42472,"date":"2015-08-31T17:17:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T17:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42472"},"modified":"2017-03-30T02:08:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T02:08:38","slug":"thats-what-she-said-red-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42472","title":{"rendered":"That’s What She Said: Red-face"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s What She Said: Red-face<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Eagle Feather News<\/a>
\nSaskatchewan, Canada
\n2015-08-02<\/p>\n

Dawn Dumont<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rachel Dolezal<\/a> is a white woman who decided one day that she was African-American. This crazy white lady braided in some fake hair, darkened her skin with tanning sessions and then became the leader of Spokane\u2019s NAACP<\/a> (the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I had no idea that we could switch races whenever we felt like it. I\u2019ve stupidly been Cree<\/a> just because I emerged from a Cree v-jay-jay<\/a>. So, for the rest of the month, I\u2019m choosing to be Tibetan. Since this morning, I\u2019ve already sherpa\u2019d<\/a> six people up Diefenbaker Hill<\/a>. (I really should have chosen a less hardy race.)<\/p>\n

When I look in the mirror, I see a round-cheeked First Nation<\/a> female looking back at me, but the world begs to disagree. I\u2019ve been mistaken for Vietnamese, Spanish, Hawaiian, and Mexican-Japanese (which seemed oddly specific.) But I don\u2019t have any identity issues. Probably because I lived on a reserve for the first 18 years of my life where I consumed enough deer meat, bologna steak and KFC family meals to keep me real for a lifetime.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until I got to university that I discovered people struggling with their identity. In my first year, friends would point out First Nations people in the hallways who were passing as white<\/a>. They would casually say: \u201cThat\u2019s Jason, he\u2019s from Kawacatoose<\/a> but he\u2019s white now,\u201d as if he had just switched banks…<\/p>\n

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

I had no idea that we could switch races whenever we felt like it. I\u2019ve stupidly been Cree just because I emerged from a Cree v-jay-jay. So, for the rest of the month, I\u2019m choosing to be Tibetan. Since this morning, I\u2019ve already sherpa\u2019d six people up Diefenbaker Hill. (I really should have chosen a less hardy race.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,19,8,3015,6462],"tags":[20871,20872,20873],"class_list":["post-42472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-canada","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-passing-2","tag-dawn-dumont","tag-eagle-feather-news","tag-saskatoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42472","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=42472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53091,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42472\/revisions\/53091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}