{"id":43141,"date":"2015-10-08T20:46:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43141"},"modified":"2015-10-08T20:46:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:46:34","slug":"my-mother-said-by-identifying-yourself-as-black-youre-cutting-out-the-whole-other-side-of-your-heritage-youre-not-acknowledging-the-fact-that-half-of-you-is-whit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43141","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy mother said, \u2018By identifying yourself as black, you\u2019re cutting out the whole other side of your heritage. You\u2019re not acknowledging the fact that half of you is white, that half of your background is white.\u2019 That I wasn\u2019t acknowledging that she existed.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cMy mother said, \u2018By identifying yourself as black, you\u2019re cutting out the whole other side of your heritage. You\u2019re not acknowledging the fact that half of you is white, that half of your background is white.\u2019 That I wasn\u2019t acknowledging that she existed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m starting to see myself as mixed. If I\u2019m asked my identity, I will say <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/People_of_Northern_Ireland\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Irish<\/a> and it took me a long time to say that and to feel comfortable saying that.\u201d\u00a0\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jayne_legacy\" target=\"_blank\">Jayne Olorunda<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dean Van Nguyen, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42272\" target=\"_blank\">Half-white, half-Asian, but no less Irish<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Irish Examiner<\/em>, August 15, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/lifestyle\/features\/half-white-half-asian-but-no-less-irish-348324.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/lifestyle\/features\/half-white-half-asian-but-no-less-irish-348324.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy mother said, \u2018By identifying yourself as black, you\u2019re cutting out the whole other side of your heritage. You\u2019re not acknowledging the fact that half of you is white, that half of your background is white.\u2019 That I wasn\u2019t acknowledging that she existed.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m starting to see myself as mixed. If I\u2019m asked my identity, [&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":[20713,18237,17724,18236],"class_list":["post-43141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-dean-van-nguyen","tag-irish-examiner","tag-jayne-olorunda","tag-the-irish-examiner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43141","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=43141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43142,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43141\/revisions\/43142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}