{"id":44167,"date":"2015-11-23T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44167"},"modified":"2017-02-19T23:02:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T23:02:45","slug":"maybe-you-dont-say-youre-black-if-youre-biracial-but-its-how-youre-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44167","title":{"rendered":"Maybe you don&#8217;t say you&#8217;re black if you&#8217;re biracial. But it\u2019s how you&#8217;re seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/nov\/22\/maybe-you-dont-say-youre-black-if-youre-biracial-but-its-how-youre-seen\" target=\"_blank\">Maybe you don&#8217;t say you&#8217;re black if you&#8217;re biracial. But it\u2019s how you&#8217;re seen<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2015-11-22<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachstafford\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Zach Stafford<\/strong><\/a>, Contributing Writer<br \/>\n<em>Chicago, Illinois<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>No matter how I identify or how I feel, it\u2019s my skin color that determines how I\u2019ll be treated<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Like every young black man I know, I remember the moment when my parents sat me down for \u201cthe talk\u201d about the very real danger that comes from being young, black and male in the US. My mother and step-father sat me down one day when I was about 15 years old and told me that that now that I was getting older, I needed to be careful&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/nov\/22\/maybe-you-dont-say-youre-black-if-youre-biracial-but-its-how-youre-seen\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you don&#8217;t say you&#8217;re black if you&#8217;re biracial. But it\u2019s how you&#8217;re seen The Guardian 2015-11-22 Zach Stafford, Contributing Writer Chicago, Illinois No matter how I identify or how I feel, it\u2019s my skin color that determines how I\u2019ll be treated Like every young black man I know, I remember the moment when my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,125,8,394,20],"tags":[21895,2103,17820],"class_list":["post-44167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-taye-diggs","tag-the-guardian","tag-zach-stafford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44167","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=44167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51710,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44167\/revisions\/51710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}