{"id":48291,"date":"2016-07-16T14:48:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T14:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48291"},"modified":"2016-07-16T14:48:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T14:48:06","slug":"marrying-black-girls-for-guys-who-arent-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48291","title":{"rendered":"Marrying Black Girls for Guys who aren\u2019t Black"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marrying Black Girls for Guys who aren\u2019t Black<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Jacana Media<\/a>
\nOctober 2013
\n256 pages
\n198 x 130mm
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781920601287
\nd-PDF ISBN: 9781920601294
\nePUB ISBN: 9781920601300
\nmobi file ISBN: 9781920601317<\/p>\n

Hagen Engler<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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White guy Hagen Engler had been married to his black wife for a couple of years before he realised he was still a racist! Marrying Black Girls for Guys Who Aren\u2019t Black<\/em> describes his journey from being the whitest person this side of a Smokie<\/a> concert to being slightly blacker, if not visibly so. Combining anecdotes, rhymes, essays and freestyle political discourse, the book charts a personal route to an integrated society in Unit 2, Sandown Court, Johannesburg<\/a>. As the newly disenfranchised minority in his lounge, Hagen has gained a fresh insight into the struggles of the oppressed. Living with a gorgeous, militant black woman has helped this armchair liberal understand cultural and economic reality and also realise that while he can appreciate the kwaito<\/a>-house works of Oskido<\/a> and the later releases of Letta Mbuli<\/a>, he will never enjoy Basketball Wives<\/em><\/a>, Kenny Lattimore<\/a>, or boiled tripe<\/a>. The jury\u2019s still out on umleqwa<\/a> too. Once you make your peace with skin colour, does race even exist? Or is culture what distinguishes us? What happens when a surfer\/bungee-jumper\/rock \u2019n\u2019 roll goofball hooks up with a black-diamond struggle veteran and shoe fetishist?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to be a neoliberal hardliner when your partner\u2019s real-life experience undermines all your prejudices. It\u2019s cultural exchange over the TV remote; race relations in the contested space between the sink, the toaster and the microwave, as yet another mixed marriage cocks up the race debate. Hagen Engler learns about himself and our emerging, common culture as much as his lovely black wife in How to Marry a Black Chick for Guys who are White<\/em>.<\/p>\n

He has surfed Hawaii<\/a>, run the Comrades<\/a>, climbed Kilimanjaro<\/a>, been sued by a clown and eaten a praying mantis. So a lot of the bucket-list boxes have been ticked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marrying Black Girls for Guys who aren\u2019t Black Jacana Media October 2013 256 pages 198 x 130mm Paperback ISBN: 9781920601287 d-PDF ISBN: 9781920601294 ePUB ISBN: 9781920601300 mobi file ISBN: 9781920601317 Hagen Engler White guy Hagen Engler had been married to his black wife for a couple of years before he realised he was still a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,395,11,8,17,520],"tags":[24502,9549],"class_list":["post-48291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-south-africa","tag-hagen-engler","tag-jacana-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48291","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=48291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48292,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48291\/revisions\/48292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}