{"id":43794,"date":"2015-11-06T19:41:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T19:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43794"},"modified":"2015-11-06T19:41:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T19:41:19","slug":"valuing-blackness-vs-claiming-mixedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43794","title":{"rendered":"Valuing Blackness vs. Claiming &#8220;Mixedness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forharriet.com\/2014\/10\/valuing-blackness-vs-claiming-mixedness.html\" target=\"_blank\">Valuing Blackness vs. Claiming &#8220;Mixedness&#8221;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forharriet.com\" target=\"_blank\">For Harriet<\/a><br \/>\n2014-10-30<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tamara Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I remember being in 7th grade, and writing on the back of my folder all the things I was told by an older cousin I was \u201cmixed\u201d with. I had a desire to claim all I thought I was, but what was more interesting is that I wanted everyone to know. I had no idea where this desire came from, but I did know the idea of being part of something other than Black intrigued me. I was unaware that the need to denounce my Blackness had already been steeped in my unconscious by mainstream media&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forharriet.com\/2014\/10\/valuing-blackness-vs-claiming-mixedness.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valuing Blackness vs. Claiming &#8220;Mixedness&#8221; For Harriet 2014-10-30 Tamara Williams I remember being in 7th grade, and writing on the back of my folder all the things I was told by an older cousin I was \u201cmixed\u201d with. I had a desire to claim all I thought I was, but what was more interesting is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,20],"tags":[18377,21798],"class_list":["post-43794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-for-harriet","tag-tamara-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43794","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=43794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43795,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43794\/revisions\/43795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}