{"id":42632,"date":"2015-09-09T19:47:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T19:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42632"},"modified":"2015-09-09T19:47:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T19:47:20","slug":"blended-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42632","title":{"rendered":"Blended Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mixedrootsstories.com\/blended-families\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blended Families<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mixedrootsstories.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Roots Stories<\/a><br \/>\n2015-09-02<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unf.edu\/coas\/english\/Prof__Tru_Leverette.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tru Leverette<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to call a family blended? The term still refers to families formed after divorce and remarriage\u2014step-parents and step-children and step-siblings pieced together in new patterns. The term can also encompass families that are interracial; in these families, blending takes on additional permutations that certainly have puzzled some throughout history.<\/p>\n<p>Like other interracial families, those that are also blended through remarriage contend with external assumptions and judgments\u2014the confused looks and questioning glances, the \u201cah-ha\u201d moments or oblivious denial. When I was married to my daughter\u2019s father\u2014who, like me, has both a black and a white parent\u2014I slipped into the ease of relative inconspicuousness for the first time in my life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/mixedrootsstories.com\/blended-families\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blended Families Mixed Roots Stories 2015-09-02 Tru Leverette, Associate Professor of English University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida What does it mean to call a family blended? The term still refers to families formed after divorce and remarriage\u2014step-parents and step-children and step-siblings pieced together in new patterns. The term can also encompass families that are [&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":[15960,3968],"class_list":["post-42632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-family","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-mixed-roots-stories","tag-tru-leverette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42632","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=42632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42635,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42632\/revisions\/42635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}