{"id":45262,"date":"2016-01-22T03:16:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T03:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45262"},"modified":"2016-01-22T03:18:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T03:18:02","slug":"moving-to-venezuela-a-land-in-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45262","title":{"rendered":"Moving to Venezuela, a Land in Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moving to Venezuela, a Land in Turmoil<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2016-01-21<\/p>\n

Nicholas Casey<\/a>, a New York Times correspondent, is sharing moments from his first 30 days living in Caracas<\/a>, a city in the midst of great tumult and change. Follow Nick on Twitter<\/a>, Facebook<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Q&A: Race and Racism in Venezuela<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Q.<\/strong> I\u2019d like to hear your impressions on race and racism, since everyone seems to be mixed race in Venezuela.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Silvia Rodriguez, Illinois<\/a><\/p>\n

A.<\/strong> Race is something that has preoccupied me in my past reporting assignments, in which I\u2019ve had a chance to watch not only how people treat each other, but how I\u2019m received.<\/p>\n

With a Afro-Cuban father and a white mother, I was never confused for a local during my five years reporting from Mexico<\/a>. More often, I was confused for a pop singer named Kalimba<\/a>. He seemed to be the only man in that country who had hair like mine and wore similar glasses…<\/p>\n

…Of all the places I\u2019ve lived, there\u2019s only one where I felt uncomfortable being black. It was where I am from: the United States.<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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