{"id":42481,"date":"2015-09-01T01:38:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T01:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42481"},"modified":"2017-02-19T22:50:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:50:54","slug":"my-baby-will-be-mixed-race-so-why-did-i-automatically-think-of-him-as-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42481","title":{"rendered":"My baby will be mixed race. So why did I automatically think of him as &#8216;black&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/oct\/14\/mixed-race-baby-black-one-drop-rule\" target=\"_blank\">My baby will be mixed race. So why did I automatically think of him as &#8216;black&#8217;?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2014-10-14<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/waytogobitch\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Bond<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I picked a black baby to represent my unborn child on a cake because of my own adherence to the \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one-drop rule<\/a>\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My 87-year-old grandmother has a very specific way of saying the word black: she drags out the <em>a<\/em> and makes the <em>k<\/em> extra hard for an effect that drowns the <em>c<\/em>. \u201cBlaaaak\u201d out of my grandmother\u2019s mouth is an admonishment, not a color. \u201cBlaaaak\u201d out of my grandmother\u2019s mouth travels a step beyond being a pejorative to having the hair-raising resonance of a word that damns as well as describes damnation itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlaaaak\u201d out of my grandmother\u2019s mouth is a curse&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/oct\/14\/mixed-race-baby-black-one-drop-rule\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My baby will be mixed race. So why did I automatically think of him as &#8216;black&#8217;? The Guardian 2014-10-14 Victoria Bond I picked a black baby to represent my unborn child on a cake because of my own adherence to the \u2018one-drop rule\u2019 My 87-year-old grandmother has a very specific way of saying the word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,414,8,20],"tags":[2103,20877],"class_list":["post-42481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-family","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-the-guardian","tag-victoria-bond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42481","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=42481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51697,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42481\/revisions\/51697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}