{"id":48553,"date":"2016-08-04T01:48:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T01:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48553"},"modified":"2016-08-04T02:07:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T02:07:29","slug":"in-black-lotus-author-sil-lai-abrams-explores-search-for-racial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48553","title":{"rendered":"In ‘Black Lotus,’ Author Sil Lai Abrams Explores Search For Racial Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

In ‘Black Lotus,’ Author Sil Lai Abrams Explores Search For Racial Identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Here & Now<\/a>
\nWBUR 90.9 FM, Boston, Massachusetts<\/a>
\n2016-08-03<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nSil Lai Abrams<\/a>, author of \u201cBlack Lotus: A Woman\u2019s Search for Racial Identity<\/a>.\u201d (Courtesy of Che Williams)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

When Sil Lai Abrams<\/a> was a child, her white father and her Chinese mother explained her dark skin and curly hair were a result of her Hawaiian birthplace. But when she was 14, her father told her that her biological father was a black man.<\/p>\n

Abrams struggled for years to figure out just who she was, and tells her story in the new memoir \u201cBlack Lotus: A Woman\u2019s Search for Racial Identity<\/a>.\u201d Abrams joins Here & Now’s<\/em> Eric Westervelt<\/a> to talk about the book…<\/p>\n

Listen to the interview here<\/a>. Read an excerpt from the book here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In ‘Black Lotus,’ Author Sil Lai Abrams Explores Search For Racial Identity Here & Now WBUR 90.9 FM, Boston, Massachusetts 2016-08-03 Sil Lai Abrams, author of \u201cBlack Lotus: A Woman\u2019s Search for Racial Identity.\u201d (Courtesy of Che Williams) When Sil Lai Abrams was a child, her white father and her Chinese mother explained her dark […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,2850,395,13743,8,20],"tags":[24678,24679,23790,10928,24677],"class_list":["post-48553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-audio","category-autobiography","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-eric-westervelt","tag-here-now","tag-sil-lai-abrams","tag-wbur","tag-wbur-90-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48553","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=48553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48554,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48553\/revisions\/48554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}