{"id":45754,"date":"2016-02-24T03:44:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T03:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45754"},"modified":"2016-05-21T00:11:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T00:11:47","slug":"i-feel-guilty-for-being-able-to-pass-as-a-person-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45754","title":{"rendered":"I Feel Guilty for Being Able to \u2018Pass\u2019 as a Person of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kveller.com\/i-feel-guilty-for-being-able-to-pass-as-a-person-of-color\/\" target=\"_blank\">I Feel Guilty for Being Able to \u2018Pass\u2019 as a Person of Color<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kveller.com\" target=\"_blank\">Kveller<\/a><br \/>\n2016-02-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElanaRabinowitz\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Elana Rabinowitz<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Brooklyn, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He called me <em>negra<\/em>. Not <em>mami<\/em> or <em>guapa<\/em>, but what translates to \u201cblack woman.\u201d I wasn\u2019t offended. More confused. The thing is, I\u2019m really just a white Jewish girl from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn<\/a>. There, I said it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.junotdiaz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Junot Diaz<\/a> came to give a book talk and I was awestruck by the man who stood in front of me, waxing poetically in a black hoodie sweatshirt. Would that have been the time to correct a genius? Oh, I am sorry, Junot, I\u2019m actually just another Jewish girl from Brooklyn. I balked.<\/p>\n<p>My last name is Rabinowitz, and with a name like that, and a life like mine, I\u2019ve had my share of jokes and stereotypes, but never anything I couldn\u2019t handle. The more interesting paradox is that the hue of my skin and the positioning of my features has often made me appear more Hispanic than anything else. After a while you get used to it, and eventually, I even started to believe it. I lived and studied in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ecuador\" target=\"_blank\">Ecuador<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Argentina\" target=\"_blank\">Argentina<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico<\/a>. Each trip I returned home with more mannerisms and vocabulary inadvertently adding to my new identity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kveller.com\/i-feel-guilty-for-being-able-to-pass-as-a-person-of-color\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Feel Guilty for Being Able to \u2018Pass\u2019 as a Person of Color Kveller 2016-02-18 Elana Rabinowitz Brooklyn, New York He called me negra. Not mami or guapa, but what translates to \u201cblack woman.\u201d I wasn\u2019t offended. More confused. The thing is, I\u2019m really just a white Jewish girl from Brooklyn. There, I said it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,125,3601,8,6462,820,20],"tags":[6675,23054,23053,2711],"class_list":["post-45754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-identitydevelopment","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-religion","category-usa","tag-brooklyn","tag-elana-rabinowitz","tag-kveller","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45754","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=45754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45755,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45754\/revisions\/45755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}