{"id":45760,"date":"2016-02-24T04:17:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T04:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45760"},"modified":"2016-02-24T04:28:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T04:28:07","slug":"mixed-kids-arent-going-to-save-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45760","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Kids Aren\u2019t Going to Save the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/leahandblackhistorymonth.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/16\/mixed-kids-arent-going-to-save-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Kids Aren\u2019t Going to Save the World<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leahandblackhistorymonth.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Leah and Black History Month<\/a><br \/>\n2016-02-16<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeahAnneli\" target=\"_blank\">Leah Anneli<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have a Black father and a white mother. I\u2019m mixed. I\u2019m not a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unicorn\" target=\"_blank\">unicorn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think there are some misconceptions about who mixed race people are and what function we serve in society. Let\u2019s unpack those.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We\u2019re not the default mediators between cultures.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I feel like this misconception is tied to the fact that our society thinks of mixed race people as \u201chalf white, half something else.\u201d Mixed race people who don\u2019t have a \u201cwhite parent\u201d are largely erased when mixed race people are discussed or represented in media. Being mixed race isn\u2019t limited to being \u201cwhite and\u2026,\u201d but our society perceives mixed identity that way. My experience is shaped by the fact that I am \u201cwhite and\u2026.,\u201d but I need to stress that my experience, though over-represented, isn\u2019t the experience&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/leahandblackhistorymonth.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/16\/mixed-kids-arent-going-to-save-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed Kids Aren\u2019t Going to Save the World Leah and Black History Month 2016-02-16 Leah Anneli I have a Black father and a white mother. I\u2019m mixed. I\u2019m not a unicorn. I think there are some misconceptions about who mixed race people are and what function we serve in society. Let\u2019s unpack those. We\u2019re not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,20],"tags":[23060,23061],"class_list":["post-45760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-leah-and-black-history-month","tag-leah-donnella"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45760","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=45760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45763,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45760\/revisions\/45763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}