{"id":46911,"date":"2016-05-09T23:40:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T23:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46911"},"modified":"2016-05-09T23:40:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T23:40:34","slug":"stop-turning-mixed-race-girls-into-a-fetish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46911","title":{"rendered":"Stop Turning Mixed Race Girls Into a Fetish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stop Turning Mixed Race Girls Into a Fetish<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Consented<\/a>
\n2016-03-04<\/p>\n

Antonia King<\/strong><\/a>
\nHistory graduate turned job hunter, currently living between Devon and London, spoken word artist and lover of Nicki Minaj<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I was in Sainsbury\u2019s<\/a> and a white woman who helped me reach something on the top shelf decided to ask me my ethnic background. She was well meaning and seemed kind so no immediate alarm bells rang, but she then informed me she wants mixed race kids. She laughed and stated \u201cI\u2019m single right now, but definitely only looking at black guys, mixed race kids are just so beautiful\u201d.<\/p>\n

I smiled, left and then began to despair and worry about her future children. This is nothing I haven\u2019t heard many times before, a quick Twitter search for \u201cmixed race kids\u201d will reveal many people detailing how they want mixed race children to dress up and parade around like a handbag.<\/p>\n

The major issue being that mixed race children are not handbags. Mixed race children, especially girls, are fetishized and even sexualised before they\u2019re born. Comments about how beautiful they\u2019re going to be, or how they\u2019ll be just the right amount of black start disgustingly early, the media commentary on North West<\/a> is a prime example of this…<\/p>\n

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Read the entire article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stop Turning Mixed Race Girls Into a Fetish Consented 2016-03-04 Antonia King History graduate turned job hunter, currently living between Devon and London, spoken word artist and lover of Nicki Minaj. I was in Sainsbury\u2019s and a white woman who helped me reach something on the top shelf decided to ask me my ethnic background. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8,10],"tags":[23750,23751],"class_list":["post-46911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-antonia-king","tag-consented"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46911","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=46911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46912,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46911\/revisions\/46912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}