{"id":44536,"date":"2015-12-09T02:34:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T02:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44536"},"modified":"2015-12-09T02:35:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T02:35:00","slug":"people-of-color-with-albinism-ask-where-do-i-belong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44536","title":{"rendered":"People Of Color With Albinism Ask: Where Do I Belong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/codeswitch\/2015\/12\/07\/457147952\/people-of-color-with-albinism-ask-where-do-i-belong\" target=\"_blank\">People Of Color With Albinism Ask: Where Do I Belong?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/codeswitch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\">National Public Radio<\/a><br \/>\n2015-12-07<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anjuliks\" target=\"_blank\">Anjuli Sastry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Growing up, Natalie Devora always questioned how she fit into her African-American family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone was brown, and then there was me,&#8221; Devora says. &#8220;I&#8217;m a white-skinned black woman. That&#8217;s how I navigate through the world. That&#8217;s how I identify.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Devora has <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albinism\" target=\"_blank\">albinism<\/a>, a rare genetic expression that leads to little or no <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melanin\" target=\"_blank\">melanin<\/a> production. No matter what race or ethnicity someone with albinism is, their skin and hair appear white because of a lack of pigment. It is estimated that one out of every 18,000 to 20,000 people born in America each year has some form of albinism, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albinism.org\/site\/c.flKYIdOUIhJ4H\/b.9253761\/k.24EE\/Information_Bulletin__What_is_Albinism.htm\" target=\"_blank\">according to the National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Devora grew up in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oakland,_California\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland, Calif.<\/a>, where, every so often, strangers would ask her mother about her &#8220;white&#8221; child. It made Devora question where she belonged&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;That brings us back to the original question. In a society where race is intrinsic to the fabric of our society \u2014 leaving aside the myths of post-racialism and colorblind politics \u2014 where do people of color, but without color, fit? Do they need to fit? And how should everyone else change their own perceptions about albinism?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/codeswitch\/2015\/12\/07\/457147952\/people-of-color-with-albinism-ask-where-do-i-belong\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People Of Color With Albinism Ask: Where Do I Belong? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-12-07 Anjuli Sastry Growing up, Natalie Devora always questioned how she fit into her African-American family. &#8220;Everyone was brown, and then there was me,&#8221; Devora says. &#8220;I&#8217;m a white-skinned black woman. That&#8217;s how I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,2039,8,394,20],"tags":[22222,22223,14788,22224,22225,22221,2309,2833],"class_list":["post-44536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-anjuli-sastry","tag-brandi-green","tag-code-switch","tag-mike-mcgowan","tag-murray-brilliant","tag-natalie-devora","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44536","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=44536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44537,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44536\/revisions\/44537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}