{"id":48316,"date":"2016-07-19T00:42:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T00:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48316"},"modified":"2016-07-19T00:42:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T00:42:55","slug":"until-extremely-recently-i-really-diminished-the-fact-that-my-parents-were-black-and-white-most-people-think-of-me-as-black-i-dont-identify-as-biracial-or-mixed-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48316","title":{"rendered":"\u201cUntil extremely recently, I really diminished the fact that my parents were black and white. Most people think of me as black. I don\u2019t identify as biracial or mixed race.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As a kindergartner, <a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.sas.upenn.edu\/content\/dorothy-roberts\" target=\"_blank\">[Dorothy] Roberts<\/a> recalls, she embraced her parents\u2019 philosophy. \u201cI remember being proud that I had parents of different races and that was an important part of my identity. But by the time I was in seventh grade, I identified as black and was much more interested in liberation for black people than in interracial relationships,\u201d she says. \u201cUntil extremely recently, I really diminished the fact that my parents were black and white. Most people think of me as black. I don\u2019t identify as biracial or mixed race.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Melissa Jacobs, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48226\" target=\"_blank\">Dangerous Ideas<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Pennsylvania Gazette<\/em>, June 20, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/thepenngazette.com\/dangerous-ideas\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thepenngazette.com\/dangerous-ideas\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a kindergartner, [Dorothy] Roberts recalls, she embraced her parents\u2019 philosophy. \u201cI remember being proud that I had parents of different races and that was an important part of my identity. But by the time I was in seventh grade, I identified as black and was much more interested in liberation for black people than [&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":[10148,1272,24464,9925],"class_list":["post-48316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-dorothy-e-roberts","tag-dorothy-roberts","tag-melissa-jacobs","tag-the-pennsylvania-gazette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48316","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=48316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48317,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48316\/revisions\/48317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}