{"id":44257,"date":"2015-11-27T02:20:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T02:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44257"},"modified":"2015-11-27T02:20:40","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T02:20:40","slug":"taye-diggs-isnt-wrong-or-right-about-his-sons-biracial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44257","title":{"rendered":"Taye Diggs Isn\u2019t Wrong (Or Right) About His Son\u2019s Biracial Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\/2015\/11\/20\/taye-diggs-isnt-wrong-about-his-biracial-identity-and-neither-are-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taye Diggs Isn\u2019t Wrong (Or Right) About His Son\u2019s Biracial Identity<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\" target=\"_blank\">The Establishment<\/a><br \/>\n2015-11-20<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sutherlandjm\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Sutherland<\/a><\/strong>, Marketing Director<\/p>\n<p>In October, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taye_Diggs\" target=\"_blank\">Taye Diggs<\/a> released <a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9781250047199\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mixed Me!<\/em><\/a> as a followup to his first children\u2019s book, 2011\u2019s <em>Chocolate Me!<\/em> While <em>Chocolate Me!<\/em> was inspired by Diggs\u2019 experiences as a black child in a predominantly white neighborhood, <em>Mixed Me!<\/em> focuses on the hope he has for his biracial son.<\/p>\n<p>While doing press for the book this month, Diggs (aka my most famous Twitter follower, and probably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/story\/yes-we-were-followed-twitter-taye-diggs-no-were-not-special\/\" target=\"_blank\">yours too<\/a>) enraged a lot of people by choosing to describe his 6-year-old son Walker as biracial, rather than black, in order to acknowledge both of his parents\u2019 cultures (Walker\u2019s mother is the actress\/singer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Idina_Menzel\" target=\"_blank\">Idina Menzel<\/a>, who is of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashkenazi_Jews\" target=\"_blank\">Ashkenazi Jewish<\/a> descent)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The controversy has stirred up fresh debate about the divisive issue of biracial self-identification\u2014a divisiveness I, and many other mixed-race people, have experienced firsthand. Personally, as a biracial American, I prefer to be identified as such. But my <em>Establishment<\/em> colleague, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IjeomaOluo\" target=\"_blank\">Ijeoma Oluo<\/a>, who is also biracial, prefers to identify as black.<\/p>\n<p>Neither of us are wrong&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\/2015\/11\/20\/taye-diggs-isnt-wrong-about-his-biracial-identity-and-neither-are-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taye Diggs Isn\u2019t Wrong (Or Right) About His Son\u2019s Biracial Identity The Establishment 2015-11-20 Jessica Sutherland, Marketing Director In October, Taye Diggs released Mixed Me! as a followup to his first children\u2019s book, 2011\u2019s Chocolate Me! While Chocolate Me! was inspired by Diggs\u2019 experiences as a black child in a predominantly white neighborhood, Mixed Me! 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