{"id":47738,"date":"2016-06-17T20:31:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T20:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47738"},"modified":"2016-06-17T20:31:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T20:31:22","slug":"for-me-identifying-as-black-has-nothing-to-do-with-distancing-myself-from-my-mom-her-whiteness-her-family-heritage-or-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47738","title":{"rendered":"For me, identifying as Black has nothing to do with distancing myself from my mom, her whiteness, her family, heritage, or culture."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For me, identifying as Black has nothing to do with distancing myself from my mom, her whiteness, her family, heritage, or culture. Rather, it is one way I resist racism every day. By claiming and embracing my Blackness, I push back on the messages within me and around me that would have us believing that being Black is anything I wouldn\u2019t want to be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Megan Madison, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47706\" target=\"_blank\">Yes, I\u2019m Black! Here\u2019s why.<\/a>\u201d <em>Medium<\/em>, June 16, 2016. <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/embrace-race\/yes-im-black-here-s-why-482640e6ed4a\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/medium.com\/embrace-race\/yes-im-black-here-s-why-482640e6ed4a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me, identifying as Black has nothing to do with distancing myself from my mom, her whiteness, her family, heritage, or culture. Rather, it is one way I resist racism every day. By claiming and embracing my Blackness, I push back on the messages within me and around me that would have us believing that [&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":[18537,24156],"class_list":["post-47738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-medium","tag-megan-madison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47738","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=47738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47739,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47738\/revisions\/47739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}