{"id":47703,"date":"2016-06-17T01:48:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T01:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47703"},"modified":"2016-06-17T01:55:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T01:55:27","slug":"but-what-i-am-really-asking-is-am-i-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47703","title":{"rendered":"But what I am really asking is, Am I black?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The lies passed down from my grandmother have led to multiple family members <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing as white<\/a>. I have now, sixteen years after discovering my grandmother\u2019s secret, begun to question it in earnest. I have begun to read about and question the history of passing; I have begun to ask black friends about their hidden relatives, and I ask my family questions they have never felt comfortable answering. But what I am really asking is, Am I black?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jane Marchant, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47662\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Marchant: A Century of Progress<\/a>,\u201d <em>Guernica \/ A Magazine of Art &amp; Politics<\/em>, June 13, 2016. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guernicamag.com\/daily\/jane-marchant-a-century-of-progress\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.guernicamag.com\/daily\/jane-marchant-a-century-of-progress\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lies passed down from my grandmother have led to multiple family members passing as white. I have now, sixteen years after discovering my grandmother\u2019s secret, begun to question it in earnest. I have begun to read about and question the history of passing; I have begun to ask black friends about their hidden relatives, [&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":[24113,24116,24154,24153],"class_list":["post-47703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-guernica-a-magazine-of-art-politics","tag-jane-marchant","tag-jane-r-marchant","tag-jane-rebecca-marchant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47703","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=47703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47704,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47703\/revisions\/47704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}