{"id":46536,"date":"2016-04-10T02:16:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T02:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46536"},"modified":"2018-04-04T20:15:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T20:15:43","slug":"how-to-identify-with-your-people-when-your-people-wont-let-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46536","title":{"rendered":"How To Identify With Your People When Your People Won&#8217;t Let You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swirlnationblog.com\/blog\/2016\/3\/30\/how-to-identify-with-your-people-when-your-people-wont-let-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How To Identify With Your People When Your People Won&#8217;t Let You<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swirlnationblog.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swirl Nation Blog<\/a><br \/>\n2016-03-30<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swirlnationblog.com\/?author=565e5e4be4b01585c7333f15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amal Gonzalez<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is very hard for me to write because I don\u2019t know how to begin.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve written about being racially ambiguous. Growing up in a predominantly white environment without real examples of people who are mixed-raced in the media made me \u201cother\u201d, but definitely not white, or at least not 100% white. I\u2019ve written about my parents both being mixed-race, but because of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-drop-rule,<\/a> they were black and never were allowed, or even compelled to identify as anything other than black. My dad definitely \u201clooks\u201d like he has African blood flowing through his veins \u2013 full lips, coarse, kinky hair, and a slightly broader nose. My mother, on the other hand, has been identified as Latina, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and Jewish. She has naturally soft hair, an angular nose, fairer skin, not pale. However, my mother grew up with 6 black sisters in a white rural town in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California<\/a>. Everyone knew her family and she was reminded she was black every day.<\/p>\n<p>So you can only imagine, when it came to raising me and my sisters, we were told about our white relatives. We were told about our family members we will probably never meet because they decided to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pass<\/a>\u201d during a time when being white was truly a privilege. BUT we never identified with being white or bi-racial. It was always people around me that pointed out my differences, the \u201cother\u201d. It was society that pointed out that I didn\u2019t necessarily fit in one category based on my physical appearance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swirlnationblog.com\/blog\/2016\/3\/30\/how-to-identify-with-your-people-when-your-people-wont-let-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is very hard for me to write because I don\u2019t know how to begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,20],"tags":[23472,23471],"class_list":["post-46536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-amal-gonzalez","tag-swirl-nation-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46536","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=46536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53782,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46536\/revisions\/53782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}