{"id":45622,"date":"2016-02-14T17:59:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T17:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45622"},"modified":"2019-01-12T04:26:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T04:26:21","slug":"passing-up-the-race-students-share-stories-of-racial-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45622","title":{"rendered":"Passing up the race: Students share stories of racial \u201cpassing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/arspolarispress.com\/7246\/features\/passing-up-the-race-students-share-stories-of-racial-passing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Passing up the race: Students share stories of racial \u201cpassing\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arspolarispress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polaris Press<\/a><br \/>\nThe Ann Richards School For Young Women Leaders<br \/>\nAustin, Texas<br \/>\n2016-02-04<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arspolarispress.com\/7246\/features\/passing-up-the-race-students-share-stories-of-racial-passing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arspolarispress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/whitepassingfq-752x490.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was one of the first weeks of sixth grade when Lanna Ahlberg found herself at school talking on the phone in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mandarin_Chinese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Traditional Mandarin<\/a> with her Taiwanese grandmother.<\/p>\n<p>Hanging up the phone, Ahlberg found a number of girls staring at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn sixth grade, a lot of people thought I was Hispanic or white because I have chocolate hair, like it\u2019s not black hair. My eyes aren\u2019t as prominent,\u201d Ahlberg, now in eighth grade, said. \u201cMy mom is Taiwanese and my dad is half Swedish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a person of color who has ever been mistaken for white, you\u2019ve experienced the phenomenon known as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">white passing<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simply defined, White passing is when a person of color is perceived as white at any point in their life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/arspolarispress.com\/7246\/features\/passing-up-the-race-students-share-stories-of-racial-passing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn sixth grade, a lot of people thought I was Hispanic or white because I have chocolate hair, like it\u2019s not black hair. My eyes aren\u2019t as prominent,\u201d Ahlberg, now in eighth grade, said. \u201cMy mom is Taiwanese and my dad is half Swedish.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,2895,125,14646,8,6462,20],"tags":[22960,22963,22961,22962,22958,20257,20241,22959],"class_list":["post-45622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-ann-richards-school-for-young-women-leaders","tag-gicela-lechuga","tag-lanna-ahlberg","tag-olivia-crouch","tag-polaris-press","tag-rachel-a-dolezal","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-the-ann-richards-school-for-young-women-leaders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45622","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=45622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57284,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45622\/revisions\/57284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}