{"id":43400,"date":"2015-10-22T01:05:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T01:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43400"},"modified":"2015-10-22T01:05:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T01:05:36","slug":"yes-you-are-italian-you-are-german-and-you-are-black-but-you-are-going-to-be-viewed-by-the-world-as-a-black-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43400","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Yes, you are Italian, you are German, and you are black, but you are going to be viewed by the world as a black woman.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019ve never strayed away from being black. I\u2019m biracial but something that my mom constantly said to me growing up in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_California\" target=\"_blank\">southern California <\/a>was \u2018Yes, you are Italian, you are German, and you are black, but you are going to be viewed by the world as a black woman\u2019.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mistycopeland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Misty Copeland<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@mayanyani\" target=\"_blank\">Maya Chung<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43385\" target=\"_blank\">New Film Shows Misty Copeland\u2019s Journey as a Black Ballerina<\/a>,\u201d <em>NBC News<\/em>, September 30, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/new-film-shows-misty-copelands-journey-black-ballerina-n434951\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/new-film-shows-misty-copelands-journey-black-ballerina-n434951<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never strayed away from being black. I\u2019m biracial but something that my mom constantly said to me growing up in southern California was \u2018Yes, you are Italian, you are German, and you are black, but you are going to be viewed by the world as a black woman\u2019.\u201d \u2014Misty Copeland Maya Chung, \u201cNew Film [&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":[21514,19922,15127],"class_list":["post-43400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-maya-chung","tag-misty-copeland","tag-nbc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43400","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=43400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43401,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43400\/revisions\/43401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}