{"id":47523,"date":"2016-06-10T20:36:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T20:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47523"},"modified":"2016-06-11T19:46:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T19:46:50","slug":"my-family-history-is-complicated-and-i-still-dont-fully-know-the-extent-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47523","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy family history is complicated, and I still don\u2019t fully know the extent of it&#8230;\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Juxtaposed, \u201cMexican Chef\u201d and \u201cBlack Stars\u201d speak volumes about the ongoing evolution of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xeniarubinos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Xenia] Rubios\u2019<\/a> identity. While she identifies as Afro-Latina, she tells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorlines.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Colorlines<\/em><\/a> that she does not identify as Black. \u201cMy family history is complicated, and I still don\u2019t fully know the extent of it,\u201d she says after describing her Black maternal great grandmother, her Puerto Rican family\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ta%C3%ADno\" target=\"_blank\">Taino<\/a> heritage and her paternal grandfather\u2019s emigration from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spain\" target=\"_blank\">Spain<\/a>. \u201cI started reading on the Afro-Latina diaspora two years ago, and I\u2019m still ignorant to a lot of that, but I started seeing myself in that term. I explore the \u2018Afro\u2019 part of my cultural identity, and how I do or don\u2019t fit into that, on \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/antirecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/black-terry-cat\" target=\"_blank\">Black Terry Cat<\/a>.&#8217;\u201d She says that\u2019s a big part of why hip-hop permeates this album.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sameer Rao, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47519\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Breaking\u2019 Presents: Xenia Rubinos, a Powerhose Singer\/Songwriter Unafraid to Learn Out Loud<\/a>,\u201d <em>Colorlines<\/em>, June 10, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorlines.com\/articles\/breaking-presents-xenia-rubinos-powerhose-singersongwriter-unafraid-learn-out-loud\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.colorlines.com\/articles\/breaking-presents-xenia-rubinos-powerhose-singersongwriter-unafraid-learn-out-loud<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juxtaposed, \u201cMexican Chef\u201d and \u201cBlack Stars\u201d speak volumes about the ongoing evolution of [Xenia] Rubios\u2019 identity. While she identifies as Afro-Latina, she tells Colorlines that she does not identify as Black. \u201cMy family history is complicated, and I still don\u2019t fully know the extent of it,\u201d she says after describing her Black maternal great grandmother, [&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":[3922,24050,24049],"class_list":["post-47523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-colorlines","tag-sameer-rao","tag-xenia-rubinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47523","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=47523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47525,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47523\/revisions\/47525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}