{"id":43910,"date":"2015-11-12T04:21:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T04:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43910"},"modified":"2017-03-29T19:44:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T19:44:34","slug":"academia-and-the-identity-of-mixed-race-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43910","title":{"rendered":"Academia and the Identity of Mixed-Race Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintiawomancollective.com\/academia-and-the-identity-of-mixed-race-women\/\" target=\"_blank\">Academia and the Identity of Mixed-Race Women<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintiawomancollective.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ain&#8217;t I A Woman Collective<\/a><br \/>\n2015-11-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kenixie\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nicola Codner<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintiawomancollective.com\/academia-and-the-identity-of-mixed-race-women\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aintiawomancollective.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Nicola-Codner.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vox_efx\/3051504578\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vox Efx<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>I am a 35-year old mixed race woman (Black Jamaican, Nigerian and White British), born and living in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leeds\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds, Yorkshire<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\">UK<\/a> and I recently completed a counselling diploma. As part of the work I had to do to achieve my diploma I had to do a great deal of work around examining my racial and cultural identity. It was also part of the course requirements that I had to do 20 hours of personal counselling.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t know it when I started the diploma but I had a massive amount of work that I needed to do around exploring my identity as a mixed race woman. This emerged when I started my personal counselling. I began to realise I had a lot of unresolved feelings around past experiences of racism and the lack of understanding and acknowledgement I had met as a mixed race female. I also needed to look at issues to do with race within my family as well as ancestral baggage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintiawomancollective.com\/academia-and-the-identity-of-mixed-race-women\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a 35-year old mixed race woman (Black Jamaican, Nigerian and White British), born and living in Leeds, Yorkshire the UK and I recently completed a counselling diploma. As part of the work I had to do to achieve my diploma I had to do a great deal of work around examining my racial and cultural identity. It was also part of the course requirements that I had to do 20 hours of personal counselling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,2895,125,8,10,25],"tags":[20503,21853],"class_list":["post-43910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-women","tag-aint-i-a-woman-collective","tag-nicola-codner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43910","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=43910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53067,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43910\/revisions\/53067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}