{"id":48223,"date":"2016-07-11T21:11:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T21:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48223"},"modified":"2016-07-11T21:11:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T21:11:50","slug":"standing-up-for-my-biracial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48223","title":{"rendered":"Standing Up for My Biracial Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/culture\/a21178\/biracial-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Standing Up for My Biracial Identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\" target=\"_blank\">Marie Claire<\/a><br \/>\n2016-06-28<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cstoddard\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Christine Stoddard<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>And what no one understands about it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I realized that my mother was unlike my classmates&#8217; mothers the first time another kid asked if she was my nanny.<\/p>\n<p>From the on, I became a little spy in my own home\u2014seeing my mother as other people did. I suddenly heard her accent. I noticed that the food she packed for me wasn&#8217;t the same food my classmates ate. I became aware that in the summertime, her skin got much darker than mine.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t until taking a standardized test in sixth grade that I understood I was biracial\u2014at least by the American definition. The personal information section demanded that we identify our race. It was the first time I had ever explicitly been asked the question. I told my teacher that I didn&#8217;t know how to answer the question\u2014I was more than the one box specified\u2014and almost cried when she snapped to &#8220;just pick something.&#8221; Stumped by the short list, I chose &#8220;white.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/culture\/a21178\/biracial-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing Up for My Biracial Identity Marie Claire 2016-06-28 Christine Stoddard And what no one understands about it. I realized that my mother was unlike my classmates&#8217; mothers the first time another kid asked if she was my nanny. From the on, I became a little spy in my own home\u2014seeing my mother as other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,14646,8,20],"tags":[24463,24462],"class_list":["post-48223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-christine-stoddard","tag-marie-claire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48223","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=48223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48224,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48223\/revisions\/48224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}