{"id":44754,"date":"2015-12-23T21:13:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T21:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44754"},"modified":"2015-12-23T21:13:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T21:13:10","slug":"vienna-to-london-black-to-mixed-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44754","title":{"rendered":"Vienna to London: Black to Mixed-Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/afropean.com\/vienna-to-london-black-to-mixed-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vienna to London: Black to Mixed-Race<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/afropean.com\" target=\"_blank\">Afropean: Adventures in Afro Europe<\/a><br \/>\n2015-03-19<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anninachirade\" target=\"_blank\">Annina Chirade<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vienna\" target=\"_blank\">Vienna<\/a>, a place which has historically been a frontier between <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eastern_Europe\" target=\"_blank\">Eastern<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_Europe\" target=\"_blank\">Western Europe<\/a>. I was primarily brought up in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\">London<\/a>, a city whose population reflects the reaches of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Empire\" target=\"_blank\">British Empire<\/a>. It is also the place my parents forged new homes having left their respective homelands. My father is from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ghana\" target=\"_blank\">Ghana<\/a> and ethnically <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashanti_people\" target=\"_blank\">Asante<\/a> (one should really say he is Asante first and foremost). My mother is a child of the old <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Austria-Hungary\" target=\"_blank\">Austro-Hungarian Empire<\/a> and my grandmother\u2019s post-war exile from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sudetenland\" target=\"_blank\">Sudetenland<\/a> \u2013 her homeland. I\u2019m mixed-race, even though the term never seems to capture the overlapping cultural and personal narratives that exist inside of myself and my family. As a child in the \u201890s, I went back and forth between being black in Vienna and mixed-race in London&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/afropean.com\/vienna-to-london-black-to-mixed-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vienna to London: Black to Mixed-Race Afropean: Adventures in Afro Europe 2015-03-19 Annina Chirade I was born in Vienna, a place which has historically been a frontier between Eastern and Western Europe. I was primarily brought up in London, a city whose population reflects the reaches of the British Empire. It is also the place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,28,8,10],"tags":[17846,18065,20074,850,22382],"class_list":["post-44754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-afropean","tag-afropean-adventures-in-afro-europe","tag-annina-chirade","tag-london","tag-vienna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44754","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=44754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44755,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44754\/revisions\/44755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}