{"id":48750,"date":"2016-08-20T22:58:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T22:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48750"},"modified":"2016-08-20T22:58:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T22:58:17","slug":"my-multiracial-identity-isnt-a-party-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48750","title":{"rendered":"My Multiracial Identity Isn\u2019t A Party Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\/2016\/06\/16\/my-multiracial-identity-isnt-a-party-trick\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>My Multiracial Identity Isn\u2019t A Party Trick<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\" target=\"_blank\">The Establishment<\/a><br \/>\n2016-06-16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\/author\/natasha-diaz\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Natasha Diaz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We sat in a diner at 4 a.m. with a stack of chocolate chip pancakes and chicken fingers between us, the only meal that made sense at that time of night. After a while, the food soaked up enough of the alcohol that we could converse somewhat effectively. He looked up at me and smiled, pancakes drooping from his fork. \u201cBabe,\u201d he said, \u201cthe guys and I were talking last night, trying to figure out who had hooked up with the most girls of different races. And I won!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I sat stiffly as he listed off different ethnicities, not attaching a name or even an anecdote to any of these women, as if he was running through <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ROYGBIV\" target=\"_blank\">ROYGBIV<\/a> for some elementary school test. When he finished, he took another bite of pancakes and added triumphantly, \u201cWe thought no one had hooked up with a mixed girl, but then we realized: Natasha! She\u2019s \u00ad\u2026 what was that word for you? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">Mulatto<\/a>?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I took a sip of water, stalling for time to gather my thoughts. I ran through the timeline of our three-week relationship. I was a freshman, newly free from my childhood; he was a senior, well\u00ad-liked on campus. Over warm keg beers, he had vowed that he would watch over me. But this wasn\u2019t the first time I had told myself, \u201cHe\u2019s just drunk. He means it as a compliment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I had found myself making a lot of mental excuses during my first month of college. I\u2019d been justifying the continual inappropriate jokes, invasive questions, and strange obsession with my lack of melanin: <em>How can you be Black when you\u2019re so\u2026 white?&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\/2016\/06\/16\/my-multiracial-identity-isnt-a-party-trick\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Multiracial Identity Isn\u2019t A Party Trick The Establishment 2016-06-16 Natasha Diaz We sat in a diner at 4 a.m. with a stack of chocolate chip pancakes and chicken fingers between us, the only meal that made sense at that time of night. After a while, the food soaked up enough of the alcohol that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,20],"tags":[24792,22055],"class_list":["post-48750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-natasha-diaz","tag-the-establishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48750","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=48750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48751,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48750\/revisions\/48751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}