{"id":48963,"date":"2016-09-04T01:25:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T01:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48963"},"modified":"2018-10-14T00:21:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T00:21:25","slug":"how-my-white-mother-helped-me-find-my-blackness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48963","title":{"rendered":"How My White Mother Helped Me Find My Blackness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theestablishment.co\/how-my-white-mother-helped-me-find-my-blackness-f46150d6c2cc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>How My White Mother Helped Me Find My Blackness<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Establishment<\/a><br \/>\n2016-08-31<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IjeomaOluo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ijeoma Oluo<\/a><\/strong>, Editor at Large<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/theestablishment.co\/how-my-white-mother-helped-me-find-my-blackness-f46150d6c2cc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-images-1.medium.com\/max\/800\/0*yc5dA3gNAdxwAkBE.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><small>The author (left) with her sister, uncle, brother, and mother<\/small><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u201cHold still.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom, you\u2019re hurting me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not. Hold still or your headwrap won\u2019t look right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to wear the headwrap. It looks weird. Everyone will laugh at me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind of African are you??\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked up at my white mom as she tugged on the gele around my head, and tried very hard not to roll my eyes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/theestablishment.co\/how-my-white-mother-helped-me-find-my-blackness-f46150d6c2cc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother loved our actual blackness and African-ness, not just the artistic representations of them\u200a\u2014\u200athe hair and the clothing and the food. She loved the history, the music, the language. And she wanted it FOR US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,414,125,8,20],"tags":[20411,24935,22055],"class_list":["post-48963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ijeoma-oluo","tag-susan-jane-hawley","tag-the-establishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48963","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=48963"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56921,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48963\/revisions\/56921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}