{"id":43029,"date":"2015-10-01T02:23:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T02:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43029"},"modified":"2015-10-01T02:23:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T02:23:33","slug":"these-are-the-beautiful-complex-blaxicans-of-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43029","title":{"rendered":"These are the beautiful, complex Blaxicans of Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/203273\/walter-thompson-hernandez-blaxicans-of-los-angeles-instagram\/\" target=\"_blank\">These are the beautiful, complex Blaxicans of Los Angeles<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\" target=\"_blank\">Fusion<\/a><br \/>\n2015-09-24<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/author\/jorge-rivas\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jorge Rivas<\/strong><\/a>, National Affairs Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>Back when Walter Thompson-Hernandez was in graduate school, his friends and family would give him blank stares as he explained what he was studying.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, in an effort to make his work more accessible, he started an Instagram account dedicated to his research: <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/blaxicansofla\/\" target=\"_blank\">@BlaxicansOfLA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson-Hernandez, who grew up in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles<\/a>, identifies as Blaxican\u2014his mother is Mexican, and his father is black.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe term Blaxican is really is an example of the reinvention of language that exist in the U.S,\u201d said Thompson-Hernandez, now a researcher at the University of Southern California who studies the impacts of interracial mixing between African Americans and Latinos in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\">South Los Angeles<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/203273\/walter-thompson-hernandez-blaxicans-of-los-angeles-instagram\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the beautiful, complex Blaxicans of Los Angeles Fusion 2015-09-24 Jorge Rivas, National Affairs Correspondent Back when Walter Thompson-Hernandez was in graduate school, his friends and family would give him blank stares as he explained what he was studying. Finally, in an effort to make his work more accessible, he started an Instagram account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,14646,8,20],"tags":[455,19052,11841,787,147,18064],"class_list":["post-43029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-california","tag-fusion","tag-jorge-rivas","tag-los-angeles","tag-photography","tag-walter-thompson-hernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43029","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=43029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43030,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43029\/revisions\/43030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}