{"id":44232,"date":"2015-11-26T16:32:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T16:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44232"},"modified":"2015-11-26T16:32:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T16:32:28","slug":"dolly-fernandez-growing-up-in-a-love-filled-mixed-race-family-in-the-anti-miscegenation-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44232","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Fernandez: Growing up in a love-filled, mixed-race family in the anti-miscegenation era"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dolly Fernandez: Growing up in a love-filled, mixed-race family in the anti-miscegenation era<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The FilAm: A Magazine for Filipino Americans in New York<\/a>
\n2015-11-20<\/p>\n

Cristina DC Pastor<\/strong><\/a>, Founding Editor<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a scandal, but it was also a happy marriage. They just had so much fun together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dolores \u2018Dolly\u2019 Fernandez, the daughter of a Filipino<\/a> valet and a Norwegian<\/a> hat check girl, traveled back in time and shared fond memories of her parents\u2019 stirring romance amid anti-miscegenation<\/a> laws which criminalized interracial marriages in the 1930s to the \u201860s.<\/p>\n

The statute was applied mostly on \u2018Negro-white\u2019 marriages, but hanged over the heads of Filipino pioneers \u2013 or \u2018manongs<\/a>\u2019 \u2014 in California<\/a>, who worked in plantations farms. Some of them married outside the U.S. yet they could not be seen in public with their wives because of fear of the law \u2013 which was repealed in 1967<\/a>\u2013 and fear of public humiliation. By that time, the seeds of racial prejudice had been planted on the Filipino consciousness.<\/p>\n

Dolly recalled growing up in a mixed-race family in New York City<\/a> during this era where the prevailing attitude around the country was to frown on any union of different races. Filipinos were referred to as Malays<\/a>. Her father, Pio Fernandez of Baybay, Leyte<\/a>, and mother, Agnes Olsen, got married, made a home in Astoria, Queens<\/a> and filled it with love, music, and laughter…<\/p>\n

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

Dolly Fernandez: Growing up in a love-filled, mixed-race family in the anti-miscegenation era The FilAm: A Magazine for Filipino Americans in New York 2015-11-20 Cristina DC Pastor, Founding Editor \u201cIt was a scandal, but it was also a happy marriage. They just had so much fun together.\u201d Dolores \u2018Dolly\u2019 Fernandez, the daughter of a Filipino […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,8,20],"tags":[22041,22037,22036,22035,22040,22039,22038],"class_list":["post-44232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-agnes-olsen","tag-cristina-dc-pastor","tag-dolly-fernandez","tag-dolores-dolly-fernandez","tag-pio-fernandez","tag-the-filam","tag-the-filam-a-magazine-for-filipino-americans-in-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44232","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=44232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44233,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44232\/revisions\/44233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}