{"id":48358,"date":"2016-07-21T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48358"},"modified":"2016-07-21T17:54:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T17:54:07","slug":"how-parents-oppress-their-mixed-race-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48358","title":{"rendered":"How parents oppress their mixed race children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefword.org.uk\/2016\/07\/how-parents-oppress-their-mixed-race-children\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>How parents oppress their mixed race children<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefword.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The F-Word Blog: Contemporary UK Feminism<\/a><br \/>\n2016-07-20<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kenixie\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nicola Codner<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nLeeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom<\/p>\n<p>As a mixed race woman, whenever I come across articles by monoracial parents about their mixed race children, I tend to get a cold feeling of dread of inside. These articles seem to be in abundance these days in mixed race online communities. It\u2019s very rare that I read one that doesn\u2019t bring up numerous red flags, regardless of the race of the parent who is writing. I do seem to come across more articles written by white mothers, interestingly; however, this only increases my discomfort because as white people don\u2019t experience racial oppression the scope for mistakes automatically broadens in these articles.<\/p>\n<p>Parents of mixed race children tend to write as though they are authorities on mixed race identity, when in most cases it\u2019s obvious they haven\u2019t done any research outside of their own personal (often biased) observations of their children&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefword.org.uk\/2016\/07\/how-parents-oppress-their-mixed-race-children\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How parents oppress their mixed race children The F-Word Blog: Contemporary UK Feminism 2016-07-20 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom As a mixed race woman, whenever I come across articles by monoracial parents about their mixed race children, I tend to get a cold feeling of dread of inside. These articles seem to be in [&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],"tags":[21853,24543,24545,24544],"class_list":["post-48358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-nicola-codner","tag-nicola-louise-codner","tag-the-f-word-blog","tag-the-f-word-blog-contemporary-uk-feminism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48358","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=48358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48359,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48358\/revisions\/48359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}