{"id":44076,"date":"2015-11-20T21:17:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T21:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44076"},"modified":"2015-11-20T21:29:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T21:29:13","slug":"taye-diggs-embrace-blackness-in-mixed-families-theyre-not-mutually-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44076","title":{"rendered":"Taye Diggs, Embrace Blackness In Mixed Families: They\u2019re Not Mutually Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/globalgrind.com\/2015\/11\/18\/taye-diggs-mixed-me-biracial-black-son\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taye Diggs, Embrace Blackness In Mixed Families: They\u2019re Not Mutually Exclusive<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globalgrind.com\" target=\"_blank\">Global Grind<\/a><br \/>\n2015-10-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JadaGomez\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jada Gomez<\/strong><\/a>, Managing Editor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taye_Diggs\" target=\"_blank\">Taye Diggs<\/a> is set to release a second children\u2019s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9781250047199\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mixed Me<\/em><\/a>, to teach young biracial children how to embrace their multicultural, multi-hued identities. But before it hits shelves, it needs a few edits\u2026 from a multiracial person.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43968\" target=\"_blank\">interview with <em>The Grio<\/em><\/a>, the actor shared that he wants his son, Walker Nathaniel Diggs, to be identified as <a href=\"http:\/\/globalgrind.com\/2015\/11\/18\/taye-diggs-fear-people-will-see-son-as-black-not-mixed\/\" target=\"_blank\">mixed and not Black<\/a>. The most troubling part of the admission is that he \u201cfears\u201d people will see his son as Black. With the best of intentions I\u2019m sure, his remarks were more fixated on Walker\u2019s outer shell, and what other people will think about his son, than instilling a sense of identity at Walker\u2019s core.<\/p>\n<p>As a millennial of mixed heritage, I learned quite early that my skin color and \u201cotherness\u201d would raise questions about who I am, and what I should \u201cidentify\u201d with, throughout my life. The first major hit came in preschool, when my Latino father showed up to parent-teacher night with my African-American mother. Usually, my mom would handle picking me up from school, so my classmates \u2013 and most importantly, their parents \u2013 had never met Juan Gomez before. The night was as normal as any four-year-old\u2019s night, as we watched Sesame Street while our parents met with teachers. All in all, pretty harmless&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/globalgrind.com\/2015\/11\/18\/taye-diggs-mixed-me-biracial-black-son\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taye Diggs, Embrace Blackness In Mixed Families: They\u2019re Not Mutually Exclusive Global Grind 2015-10-18 Jada Gomez, Managing Editor Taye Diggs is set to release a second children\u2019s book, Mixed Me, to teach young biracial children how to embrace their multicultural, multi-hued identities. But before it hits shelves, it needs a few edits\u2026 from a multiracial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,125,8,20],"tags":[21951,21952,21895],"class_list":["post-44076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-global-grind","tag-jada-gomez","tag-taye-diggs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44076","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=44076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44077,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44076\/revisions\/44077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}