{"id":48183,"date":"2016-07-10T20:05:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T20:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48183"},"modified":"2016-07-10T20:05:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T20:05:45","slug":"my-mixed-race-sons-look-white-but-that-doesnt-mean-racism-stays-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48183","title":{"rendered":"My mixed-race sons look white, but that doesn&#8217;t mean racism stays away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/parenting\/articles\/1121673\/mixed-race-children-look-white\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>My mixed-race sons look white, but that doesn&#8217;t mean racism stays away<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheknows.com\" target=\"_blank\">She Knows<\/a><br \/>\n2016-07-09<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fahmida Rashid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>My mixed-race sons can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;pass&#8217; for white<\/a>, and that creates its own pile of issues<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first time was when Jake was in kindergarten. He was showing off the drawing of our family: father, mother, baby brother and himself. He\u2019d even drawn the cat. I was perplexed that he\u2019d colored three of the stick figures brown and one pink. I pointed to one, ignoring the names he\u2019d written over each, and asked, \u201cWho is that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s me!\u201d he said, with that mix of exasperation and long-suffering that only 6-year-olds can pull off and still be adorable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut why are you brown?\u201d I pressed, ignoring his father\u2019s \u201cdon\u2019t go there\u201d look.<\/p>\n<p>Jake and his brother Sam are light-skinned. Not as pale as their father, who hails from the South and can his trace ancestry back to Colonial America, but still light enough that they get asked if they are Greek or Italian. Nothing close to my brown, the one who hails from the subcontinent, the land of spice and tropical sun. Yet he\u2019d colored all three of us the same brown and couldn\u2019t figure out why his mother was asking dumb questions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/parenting\/articles\/1121673\/mixed-race-children-look-white\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mixed-race sons look white, but that doesn&#8217;t mean racism stays away She Knows 2016-07-09 Fahmida Rashid My mixed-race sons can &#8216;pass&#8217; for white, and that creates its own pile of issues The first time was when Jake was in kindergarten. He was showing off the drawing of our family: father, mother, baby brother and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,125,8,6462,20],"tags":[24450,24449],"class_list":["post-48183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-fahmida-rashid","tag-she-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48183","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=48183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48184,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48183\/revisions\/48184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}