{"id":46085,"date":"2016-03-17T01:44:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T01:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46085"},"modified":"2016-03-17T01:44:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T01:44:55","slug":"im-a-dominiyorkian-of-mixed-decent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46085","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m a Dominiyorkian of mixed decent.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m a Dominiyorkian of mixed decent. If you read my book [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43705\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina<\/i><\/a>]\u00a0you will find that I\u2019m mixed and that I am just one example of the many of how the new world came to be. I\u2019m the genetic evidence that the new world happened. So can\u2019t just turn my back on one side of my culture and just call myself one thing. I feel like I\u2019d be selling out the parts of who I am for better or for worse. Because there are things that we have in our blood that we don\u2019t want to have; that we don\u2019t want to admit. That we don\u2019t want to reconcile with. For example, growing up I always thought as the European man as the aggressor, but when you have European blood running down your veins too, you have to come to terms with that.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raquel_Cepeda\" target=\"_blank\">Raquel Cepeda<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Richy Rosario, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46071\" target=\"_blank\">Interview: Raquel Cepeda On Identity, Race &amp; Hip-Hop<\/a>,\u201d <em>Vibe<\/em>, March 16, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vibe.com\/2016\/03\/interview-raquel-cepeda-on-identity-race-hip-hop\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vibe.com\/2016\/03\/interview-raquel-cepeda-on-identity-race-hip-hop\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m a Dominiyorkian of mixed decent. If you read my book [Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina]\u00a0you will find that I\u2019m mixed and that I am just one example of the many of how the new world came to be. I\u2019m the genetic evidence that the new world happened. So can\u2019t just turn my [&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":[21745,23244,19795,19796],"class_list":["post-46085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-raquel-cepeda","tag-richy-rosario","tag-vibe","tag-vibe-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46085","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=46085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46086,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46085\/revisions\/46086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}