{"id":47840,"date":"2016-06-20T18:36:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T18:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47840"},"modified":"2016-06-20T18:36:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T18:36:18","slug":"i-am-as-portuguese-as-i-am-indian-as-i-am-black-i-believe-in-building-a-%ef%bb%bfmestizo-identity-which-means-to-have-everything-together-with-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47840","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI am as Portuguese as I am Indian as I am black. I believe in building a \ufeffmestizo identity, which means to have everything together with balance.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI am as Portuguese as I am Indian as I am black. I believe in building a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mestizo\" target=\"_blank\">mestizo<\/a> identity, which means to have everything together with balance. When people come to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a>, they forget their ancestral identity. They tend to. So Brazilians become Brazilians very quick. People don\u2019t say here, \u201cI\u2019m Afro-this and this.\u201d Or, \u201cI\u2019m Portuguese this and this.\u201d No, they say, \u201cI\u2019m Brazilian.\u201d This is a good point about us.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adrianavarejao.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adriana Varej\u00e3o<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Laura C. Mallonee, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47813\" target=\"_blank\">Considering Brazil\u2019s Racial Heritage<\/a>,\u201d <em>Hyperallergic<\/em>, December 15, 2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/168901\/considering-brazils-racial-heritage\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/168901\/considering-brazils-racial-heritage\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am as Portuguese as I am Indian as I am black. I believe in building a mestizo identity, which means to have everything together with balance. When people come to Brazil, they forget their ancestral identity. They tend to. So Brazilians become Brazilians very quick. People don\u2019t say here, \u201cI\u2019m Afro-this and this.\u201d Or, [&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":[17287,16281,24228,24229],"class_list":["post-47840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-adriana-varejao","tag-hyperallergic","tag-laura-c-mallonee","tag-laura-mallonee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47840","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=47840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47841,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47840\/revisions\/47841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}