{"id":46293,"date":"2016-03-30T02:15:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T02:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46293"},"modified":"2016-04-03T02:00:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T02:00:11","slug":"however-though-my-mums-irish-my-father-is-nigerian-i-am-not-white-this-fact-one-that-i-had-never-even-considered-before-i-returned-to-the-land-of-a-thousand-welcomes-now-became-the-defi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46293","title":{"rendered":"However, though my mum\u2019s Irish, my father is Nigerian. I am not white! This fact, one that I had never even considered before I returned to the land of a thousand welcomes, now became the defining feature of my existence."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>However, though my mum\u2019s Irish, my father is Nigerian. I am not white! This fact, one that I had never even considered before I returned to the land of a thousand welcomes, now became the defining feature of my existence. I remember that first week or so back in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dublin\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin<\/a>, when I was sent out to play with the local kids. One of the first rhymes I heard was: \u201cEeny meeeny miny moe. Catch a nigger by da toe.\u201d Who, or what in the hell was \u201cnigger\u201d, I wondered? I soon learned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDiasporaDiva\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Dabiri<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46289\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019m Irish but I\u2019m not white. Why is that still a problem as we celebrate the Easter Rising?<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Guardian<\/em>, March 29, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/mar\/29\/irish-white-easter-rising-ireland-racism\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/mar\/29\/irish-white-easter-rising-ireland-racism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, though my mum\u2019s Irish, my father is Nigerian. I am not white! This fact, one that I had never even considered before I returned to the land of a thousand welcomes, now became the defining feature of my existence. I remember that first week or so back in Dublin, when I was sent out [&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":[14115,13842,246,2103],"class_list":["post-46293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-dublin","tag-emma-dabiri","tag-ireland","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46293","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=46293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46456,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46293\/revisions\/46456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}