{"id":43635,"date":"2015-11-01T00:37:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T00:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43635"},"modified":"2015-11-04T02:07:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T02:07:11","slug":"mixed-passing-for-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43635","title":{"rendered":"Mixed, Passing For White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youthradio.org\/news\/article\/mixed-passing-for-white\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed, Passing For White<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youthradio.org\" target=\"_blank\">Youth Radio<\/a><br \/>\n2015-10-12<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/maya-cueva\/78\/b59\/8a2\" target=\"_blank\">Maya Cueva<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youthradio.org\/news\/article\/mixed-passing-for-white\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/media.youthradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_9778.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>What\u2019s it like to be a mixed race person who passes as white? Complicated, according to Youth Radio\u2019s Maya Cueva. She often finds herself struggling to represent the part of her racial identity that people can\u2019t see.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My whole life, I\u2019ve always been the girl who\u2019s white face didn\u2019t quite match my last name \u2014 \u201cCueva\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In my family we always celebrated our identity: My mom\u2019s Jewish and my dad\u2019s Peruvian.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes my dad tries to say things in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yiddish\" target=\"_blank\">Yiddish<\/a>. Words like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_English_words_of_Yiddish_origin\" target=\"_blank\">schmatta<\/a>, except for with his Spanish accent. My mom calls that meshugganismo \u2014 combining the Yiddish word <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yiddish_words_used_in_English#M\" target=\"_blank\">meshugganah<\/a>, meaning crazy, with the Spanish ismo\u2026meaning ism. Quirks like this always come up in my family all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since I can remember, my mom has always searched for things that connect our Jewish and Latino identities. But out in the world, I often face identity policing. Because I pass as white, people ask if I\u2019m actually a person of color or not. So I\u2019m constantly having to prove my Peruvian heritage. Like having to tell my dad\u2019s immigration story soon after I meet people. I call it \u201ccoming out as mixed.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire story <a href=\"https:\/\/youthradio.org\/news\/article\/mixed-passing-for-white\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Listen to the story <a href=\"https:\/\/youthradio.org\/player\/?audio=16492\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Download the story <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/media.youthradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/YR_Mixed_As_White_MayaCueva_Final.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed, Passing For White Youth Radio 2015-10-12 Maya Cueva What\u2019s it like to be a mixed race person who passes as white? Complicated, according to Youth Radio\u2019s Maya Cueva. She often finds herself struggling to represent the part of her racial identity that people can\u2019t see. My whole life, I\u2019ve always been the girl who\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2850,395,3601,14646,8,6462,820],"tags":[21722,21721],"class_list":["post-43635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-audio","category-autobiography","category-judaism","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-religion","tag-maya-cueva","tag-youth-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43635","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=43635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43720,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43635\/revisions\/43720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}