{"id":43321,"date":"2015-10-18T23:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43321"},"modified":"2015-10-18T23:00:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T23:00:32","slug":"being-a-writer-was-a-counter-force-to-people-saying-i-was-a-half-caste-a-paki-a-mongrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43321","title":{"rendered":"Being a writer was a counter-force to people saying I was a half-caste, a Paki, a mongrel."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cBeing a writer was a counter-force to people saying I was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=440\" target=\"_blank\">half-caste<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paki_(slur)\" target=\"_blank\">Paki<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/mongrel\" target=\"_blank\">mongrel<\/a>. It was a real thing in the world, an identity. I needed to call myself a writer back then because they were calling me a fucking Paki&#8230; We are all mixed-race now \u2013 me, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Obama<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiger_Woods\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger Woods<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_Hamilton\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a>.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hanif_Kureishi\" target=\"_blank\">Hanif Kureishi<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/james-kidd.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Kidd<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43317\" target=\"_blank\">Hanif Kureishi: \u2018We\u2019re all mixed-race now<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Independent<\/em>, October 23, 2011. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/books\/features\/hanif-kureishi-were-all-mixed-race-now-1909507.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/books\/features\/hanif-kureishi-were-all-mixed-race-now-1909507.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBeing a writer was a counter-force to people saying I was a half-caste, a Paki, a mongrel. It was a real thing in the world, an identity. I needed to call myself a writer back then because they were calling me a fucking Paki&#8230; We are all mixed-race now \u2013 me, Obama, Tiger Woods, Lewis [&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":[16072,21451,2502],"class_list":["post-43321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-hanif-kureishi","tag-james-kidd","tag-the-independent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43321","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=43321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43322,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43321\/revisions\/43322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}