{"id":43736,"date":"2015-11-04T03:40:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T03:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43736"},"modified":"2015-11-04T03:40:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T03:40:45","slug":"i-have-always-been-brought-up-with-an-awareness-that-i-live-in-a-structurally-racist-society-and-therefore-am-engaged-with-on-the-spectrum-of-blackness-accordingly-i-politically-align-myself-to-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43736","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;I have always been brought up with an awareness that I live in a structurally racist society and therefore am engaged with on the spectrum of blackness. Accordingly, I politically align myself to Blackness. I am Black."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>All mixed people are entitled to self-identify how they please. But, for some, it is very simple: you are mixed, but you are Black \u2013 not in a reductive sense, but in a reflection of a structural reality. In my case, whilst I recognise that I am mixed (my father is white), I have always been brought up with an awareness that I live in a structurally racist society and therefore am engaged with on the spectrum of blackness. Accordingly, I politically align myself to Blackness. I am Black.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sekai Makoni, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43597\" target=\"_blank\">I Am Mixed And I Am Whole<\/a>,\u201d <em>Ain\u2019t I A Woman Collective<\/em>, October 19, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintiawomancollective.com\/i-am-mixed-and-i-am-whole\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.aintiawomancollective.com\/i-am-mixed-and-i-am-whole\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All mixed people are entitled to self-identify how they please. But, for some, it is very simple: you are mixed, but you are Black \u2013 not in a reductive sense, but in a reflection of a structural reality. In my case, whilst I recognise that I am mixed (my father is white), I have always [&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":[20503,21693],"class_list":["post-43736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-aint-i-a-woman-collective","tag-sekai-makoni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43736","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=43736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43737,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43736\/revisions\/43737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}