{"id":44259,"date":"2015-11-27T02:31:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T02:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44259"},"modified":"2015-11-27T02:31:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T02:31:01","slug":"personally-as-a-biracial-american-i-prefer-to-be-identified-as-such-ijeoma-oluo%ef%bb%bf-who-is-also-biracial-prefers-to-identify-as-black-neither-of-us-are-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44259","title":{"rendered":"Personally, as a biracial American, I prefer to be identified as such. &#8230;Ijeoma Oluo\ufeff, who is also biracial, prefers to identify as black. Neither of us are wrong."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sutherlandjm\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Sutherland<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44257\" target=\"_blank\">Taye Diggs Isn\u2019t Wrong (Or Right) About His Son\u2019s Biracial Identity<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Establishment<\/em>, November 20, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\/2015\/11\/20\/taye-diggs-isnt-wrong-about-his-biracial-identity-and-neither-are-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\/2015\/11\/20\/taye-diggs-isnt-wrong-about-his-biracial-identity-and-neither-are-you\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Establishment colleague, Ijeoma Oluo, who is also biracial, prefers to identify as black. Neither of us are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20411,22056,21895,22055],"class_list":["post-44259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-ijeoma-oluo","tag-jessica-sutherland","tag-taye-diggs","tag-the-establishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44259","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=44259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44260,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44259\/revisions\/44260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}