{"id":44904,"date":"2015-12-30T23:15:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T23:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44904"},"modified":"2015-12-30T23:15:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T23:15:48","slug":"my-mom-told-me-i-was-black-i-filled-out-paperwork-at-school-that-said-i-was-black-those-were-the-boxes-i-checked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44904","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy mom told me I was black. I filled out paperwork at school that said I was black. Those were the boxes I checked.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianspencerbell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bell<\/a>: How do you identify yourself?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mistycopeland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Misty] Copeland<\/a>: My mom told me I was black. I filled out paperwork at school that said I was black. Those were the boxes I checked. Misty laughed. She laughs a lot. But she\u2019s serious when discussing race. Both of Misty\u2019s parents were mixed race. Sylvia DelaCerna, Misty\u2019s mother, was Italian and black, adopted and brought up by a black woman and her black husband in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kansas_City,_Missouri\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City, Missouri<\/a>. DelaCerna\u2019s adoptive mother worked for child services. DelaCerna grew up to be a professional cheerleader for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kansas_City_Chiefs\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>. Misty\u2019s father split for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a> when Misty was a child and left her mom with six kids.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianspencerbell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Spencer Bell<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41656\" target=\"_blank\">The Caramel Variations<\/a>,\u201d <em>Ballet Review<\/em>, Spring 2012. 22. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balletreview.com\/images\/Ballet_Review_40-1_Caramel_Variations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.balletreview.com\/images\/Ballet_Review_40-1_Caramel_Variations.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bell: How do you identify yourself? [Misty] Copeland: My mom told me I was black. I filled out paperwork at school that said I was black. Those were the boxes I checked. Misty laughed. She laughs a lot. But she\u2019s serious when discussing race. Both of Misty\u2019s parents were mixed race. Sylvia DelaCerna, Misty\u2019s mother, [&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":[20375,22501,19922,22500],"class_list":["post-44904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-ballet-review","tag-ian-spencer-bell","tag-misty-copeland","tag-sylvia-delacerna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44904","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=44904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44905,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44904\/revisions\/44905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}