{"id":48530,"date":"2016-08-01T22:44:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T22:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48530"},"modified":"2017-01-27T02:40:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T02:40:16","slug":"personal-essay-yo-soy-boricua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48530","title":{"rendered":"Personal Essay: Yo Soy Boricua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latina.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/personal-essay-yo-soy-boricua\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Personal Essay: Yo Soy Boricua<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latina.com\" target=\"_blank\">Latina<\/a><br \/>\n2010-01-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_La_Anthony\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>La La Vazquez<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lot of people don\u2019t realize that I\u2019m Latina, which is fine. One thing about being Latina is that there isn\u2019t one look that comes with the territory. I don\u2019t expect people to know my cultural background just by glancing at me. I do, however, expect that when I tell people my family is from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puerto_Rico\" target=\"_blank\">Puerto Rico<\/a>, that I will be believed and not accused of trying to be something that I\u2019m not. It usually goes something like this: a person having a conversation with me discovers one way or another that I\u2019m Puerto Rican and fluent in Spanish. That person then expresses their shock over these realizations for any number of reasons\u2014common responses are, &#8220;You don\u2019t <em>look<\/em> Latina&#8221; and &#8220;I thought you were black!&#8221; I never said I wasn\u2019t black. And since when does being black and being Latina have to be mutually exclusive?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latina.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/personal-essay-yo-soy-boricua\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal Essay: Yo Soy Boricua Latina 2010-01-18 La La Vazquez A lot of people don\u2019t realize that I\u2019m Latina, which is fine. One thing about being Latina is that there isn\u2019t one look that comes with the territory. I don\u2019t expect people to know my cultural background just by glancing at me. I do, however, [&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":[24219,24663,19350,9058],"class_list":["post-48530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-la-la-anthony","tag-la-la-vazquez","tag-latina","tag-latina-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48530","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=48530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48531,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48530\/revisions\/48531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}