{"id":45090,"date":"2016-01-14T03:42:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T03:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45090"},"modified":"2016-01-14T03:42:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T03:42:39","slug":"i-am-black-through-my-own-accord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45090","title":{"rendered":"I am Black through my own accord."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>All of these things I took into consideration before coming to my own conclusions about my own identify. I first didn\u2019t know I was Black. I then wanted to be Black. I knew I had African ancestry throughout High School and beyond college\u2014to the point of calling myself a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulato<\/a>. I might be \u201cmixed\u201d in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominican_Republic\" target=\"_blank\">Dominican Republic<\/a>, but here, in a foreign land that I now call home, I am Black. Not because American anthropologists or society tells and treats me like so\u2014and believe me, they have\u2014but because I choose to. I am Black through my own accord.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>C\u00e9sar Vargas, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45050\" target=\"_blank\">C\u00e9sar Vargas: How I Became Black<\/a>,\u201d <em>Okayafrica. Giving you true notes since 247,000 BC<\/em>, January 8, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okayafrica.com\/news\/cesar-vargas-how-i-became-black\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.okayafrica.com\/news\/cesar-vargas-how-i-became-black\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of these things I took into consideration before coming to my own conclusions about my own identify. I first didn\u2019t know I was Black. I then wanted to be Black. I knew I had African ancestry throughout High School and beyond college\u2014to the point of calling myself a mulato. I might be \u201cmixed\u201d in [&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":[17916,22583],"class_list":["post-45090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-cesar-vargas","tag-okayafrica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45090","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=45090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45091,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45090\/revisions\/45091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}