{"id":43863,"date":"2015-11-08T21:59:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T21:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43863"},"modified":"2015-11-08T21:59:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T21:59:56","slug":"killing-that-tragic-mulatto-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43863","title":{"rendered":"Killing That \u201cTragic Mulatto\u201d Bullshit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintiawomancollective.com\/killing-that-tragic-mulatto-bullshit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Killing That \u201cTragic Mulatto\u201d Bullshit<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintiawomancollective.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ain&#8217;t I A Woman Collective<\/a><br \/>\n2015-10-28<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grace Barber-Plentie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Other than the photos of Lucille Bluth and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jennifer_Lopez\" target=\"_blank\">J-Lo <\/a>looking pissed off that I\u2019ve carefully saved to use as reaction photos to white people doing, saying, or writing thoughtless stuff, there are about a million unfinished essays, or think pieces \u2013 whatever you want to call them \u2013 saved on my computer. All of them are about my identity as a black, or to be more specific, mixed race woman. And all of them are negative.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhy,\u201d<\/em> I wail and moan in essay after essay, <em>\u201cdo I not have a place in the world?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhy do I have to sit in-between cultures, in-between two worlds? Who am I? What does it all mean?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(They\u2019re actually a lot better than that, for example there\u2019s one that, ignoring its negative tone, contains a great paragraph dedicated to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mariah_Carey\" target=\"_blank\">Mariah Carey<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I think there\u2019s a reason I have never finished any of those essays, and I think that it is primarily because I am tired of feeling sorry for myself due to my mixed heritage. It\u2019s time, after almost 21 years on this planet, to kill my <em>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=454\" target=\"_blank\">tragic mulatto<\/a> bullshit.\u201d<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintiawomancollective.com\/killing-that-tragic-mulatto-bullshit\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killing That \u201cTragic Mulatto\u201d Bullshit Ain&#8217;t I A Woman Collective 2015-10-28 Grace Barber-Plentie Other than the photos of Lucille Bluth and J-Lo looking pissed off that I\u2019ve carefully saved to use as reaction photos to white people doing, saying, or writing thoughtless stuff, there are about a million unfinished essays, or think pieces \u2013 whatever [&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],"tags":[21831,21830],"class_list":["post-43863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","tag-aint-i-a-woman-collective","tag-grace-barber-plentie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43863","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=43863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43864,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43863\/revisions\/43864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}