{"id":44192,"date":"2015-11-25T17:51:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T17:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44192"},"modified":"2015-11-25T17:52:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T17:52:26","slug":"when-society-sees-my-mixed-race-children-as-merely-a-lighter-shade-of-black-it-does-them-a-disservice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44192","title":{"rendered":"When society sees my mixed race children as merely “a lighter shade of black”, it does them a disservice"},"content":{"rendered":"

When society sees my mixed race children as merely “a lighter shade of black”, it does them a disservice<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Independent<\/a>
\n2015-11-24<\/p>\n

Dawn Jarvis<\/strong><\/p>\n

My daughter says to me, “Nobody has ever said to me ‘Do you feel white?”<\/em><\/p>\n

I am a divorced black woman with two mixed race children. Do I want my mixed race children to identify with me as a black woman, or their white father – or both?<\/p>\n

The actor Taye Diggs<\/a> caused a media storm in an interview last week on the website Grio<\/em><\/a> by saying that he teaching his mixed race son to identify with the races of both his parents and he would like him to be identified as mixed and not black. He has been accused of self-hate and being ashamed of being black, which he has refuted in a recent Instagram post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I shared an article about this on my Twitter feed and got a mixed response which surprised me. Most were positive but, one gave me cause to pause it: “I reckon he should identify with the human race given that’s what he is part of.”<\/p>\n

While agreeing that race is a social construct and we are all indeed part of the human race, I didn\u2019t think that response showed any understanding of where Taye was coming from…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When society sees my mixed race children as merely “a lighter shade of black”, it does them a disservice The Independent 2015-11-24 Dawn Jarvis My daughter says to me, “Nobody has ever said to me ‘Do you feel white?” I am a divorced black woman with two mixed race children. Do I want my mixed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,8,20],"tags":[22006,21895,2502],"class_list":["post-44192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-dawn-jarvis","tag-taye-diggs","tag-the-independent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44192","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=44192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44194,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44192\/revisions\/44194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}