{"id":48786,"date":"2016-08-23T18:07:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T18:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48786"},"modified":"2016-08-23T18:07:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T18:07:05","slug":"the-dougla-defect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48786","title":{"rendered":"The Dougla Defect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/withoutwaxgy.com\/2013\/12\/15\/the-dougla-defect\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Dougla Defect<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/withoutwaxgy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Without Wax<\/a><br \/>\n2013-12-15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sara_bharrat\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sara Bharrat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dougla\" target=\"_blank\">Dougla<\/a> Defect?<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em> Indian speaks to a Dougla woman about her Dougla baby<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Indian: The baby getting nice now.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Now he complexion comin\u2019 lil clear.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014(Rochelle Etwaroo photo and testimony)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>For Rochelle Etwaroo: the hybrid of two great people and a seed of hope.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dougla\" target=\"_blank\">Dougla<\/a> Defect is evidence of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guyana\" target=\"_blank\">Guyana\u2019s<\/a> ongoing Black and Indian war. It is a source of shame to both the Black and Indian man who insists on remaining entrenched in fear. They have both condemned the hybrid of themselves to that cold, cruel no man\u2019s land that separates them.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the Black man or the Indian man who has suffered the most painful wounds in this war. It is the hybrid who suffers; the Dougla boy, the Dougla girl, whose only crime has been birth. The war has stolen home and identity from the Dougla and replaced it with hurt and displacement. How can a nation be so cruel to its children?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/withoutwaxgy.com\/2013\/12\/15\/the-dougla-defect\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dougla Defect Without Wax 2013-12-15 Sara Bharrat Dougla Defect? Indian speaks to a Dougla woman about her Dougla baby Indian: The baby getting nice now. Now he complexion comin\u2019 lil clear. \u2014(Rochelle Etwaroo photo and testimony) For Rochelle Etwaroo: the hybrid of two great people and a seed of hope. The Dougla Defect is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,8],"tags":[2145,24832],"class_list":["post-48786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","tag-guyana","tag-sara-bharrat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48786","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=48786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48787,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48786\/revisions\/48787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}