{"id":49414,"date":"2016-10-12T20:04:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T20:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49414"},"modified":"2016-10-12T20:04:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T20:04:52","slug":"being-dual-heritage-in-modern-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49414","title":{"rendered":"Being &#8220;Dual Heritage&#8221; In Modern Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hercampus.com\/school\/exeter-cornwall\/being-dual-heritage-modern-britain\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Being &#8220;Dual Heritage&#8221; In Modern Britain<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hercampus.com\/school\/exeter-cornwall\/\" target=\"_blank\">HC At Exeter Cornwall<\/a><br \/>\n2016-10-11<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stacey Harris<\/strong>, 2nd year Environmental Science Student<br \/>\n<em>Solihull, West Midlands<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As many of you may be aware, October is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black History Month<\/a>, which acts as a platform for education, reflection and a celebration of the trials and triumphs of African and Caribbean communities throughout history.\u00a0It provides a vital means to raise the voices of minorities whose history is often sorely overlooked. \u00a0Every year a different thought-provoking\u00a0theme is selected for the month, with this year\u2019s being \u201ctackling conscious and unconscious bias\u201d. As a person of dual heritage, this got me thinking about my own intentional and unintentional bias towards my own ethnic background.<\/p>\n<p>After spending 19 years of my life with a very vague understanding of my own family history &#8211;\u00a0merely using the provided census classification of \u201cwhite black Caribbean\u201d &#8211;\u00a0I suddenly had a bit of an identity crisis, and decided I needed to know more about my heritage in order to solve this. This, in tandem with my impulsive spending habits, led to me\u00a0undertaking a 23andMe DNA test. The process involved sending away a saliva sample, and then an\u00a0agonising two\u00a0month wait until my results were sent back and\u00a0revealed. I found the whole thing strangely more emotive than I was expecting when I first saw the detailed breakdown of my ancestry, as so much of my history was presented before me in just a few words and numbers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the enitre article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hercampus.com\/school\/exeter-cornwall\/being-dual-heritage-modern-britain\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being &#8220;Dual Heritage&#8221; In Modern Britain HC At Exeter Cornwall 2016-10-11 Stacey Harris, 2nd year Environmental Science Student Solihull, West Midlands As many of you may be aware, October is Black History Month, which acts as a platform for education, reflection and a celebration of the trials and triumphs of African and Caribbean communities throughout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,2039,125,8,10],"tags":[25183,25184,25185],"class_list":["post-49414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-health-medicine","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-hc-at-exeter-cornwall","tag-her-campus","tag-stacey-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49414","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=49414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49415,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49414\/revisions\/49415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}