{"id":45088,"date":"2016-01-13T22:42:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T22:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45088"},"modified":"2016-01-13T22:42:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T22:42:36","slug":"on-being-mixed-race-i-am-not-a-percentage-or-a-fraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45088","title":{"rendered":"On Being Mixed Race: I am Not a Percentage or a Fraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theradicalnotion.com\/mixed-race-percentage\/\" target=\"_blank\">On Being Mixed Race: I am Not a Percentage or a Fraction<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theradicalnotion.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Radical Notion<\/a><br \/>\n2016-01-12<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kenixie\" target=\"_blank\">Nicola Codner<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve noticed frequently when I\u2019m having a conversation with someone about my racial identity, I start to feel frustrated by some of the language that comes up. To clarify my father is black Jamaican, Nigerian and white British, and my mother is white British.<\/p>\n<p>My earliest memories are of being described racially as \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=440\" target=\"_blank\">half-caste<\/a>\u2019. This was an acceptable term back in the 80\u2019s, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\">UK<\/a>, to describe someone whose parents are of different races. People don\u2019t tend to use this word anymore unless they are from older generations and unaware that it is not politically correct. The word \u2018caste\u2019 originates from the Spanish\/Portuguese word \u2018casta\u2019 which means \u2018pure\u2019. Describing someone as half-caste is to imply they are only half pure which has obvious racist implications. This term was my first introduction to the idea that I had an identity that could be broken down into numerical fractions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theradicalnotion.com\/mixed-race-percentage\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Being Mixed Race: I am Not a Percentage or a Fraction The Radical Notion 2016-01-12 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom I\u2019ve noticed frequently when I\u2019m having a conversation with someone about my racial identity, I start to feel frustrated by some of the language that comes up. To clarify my father is black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,125,8,10],"tags":[21853,22608],"class_list":["post-45088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-nicola-codner","tag-the-radical-notion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45088","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=45088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45089,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45088\/revisions\/45089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}