{"id":49441,"date":"2016-10-14T20:02:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T20:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49441"},"modified":"2016-10-14T20:02:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T20:02:16","slug":"why-self-identifying-as-multiracial-is-still-new-and-not-automatic-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49441","title":{"rendered":"Why Self-Identifying As Multiracial Is Still New And Not Automatic For Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swirlnationblog.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/12\/why-self-identifying-as-multiracial-is-still-new-and-not-automatic-for-me\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Why Self-Identifying As Multiracial Is Still New And Not Automatic For Me<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swirlnationblog.com\" target=\"_blank\">Swirl Nation Blog<\/a><br \/>\n2016-10-12<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarah_e_ratliff\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sarah Ratliff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I grew up in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a> during the 1960s and 70s. Although I grew up in a very racially, ethnically and culturally diverse area\u2014which included several interracial families\u2014it wasn\u2019t the norm to raise kids in that time period to self-identify as more than one race.<\/p>\n<p>Although nobody specifically said so, all of us multiracial \/ Biracial kids were living according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one-drop rule<\/a>. For many of us, my family included, this had to do with which parent\u2019s race was more discriminated against.<\/p>\n<p>In my particular case, and I know I am hardly unique, my father\u2019s father disowned my father for marrying my mother. I never met my grandmother or my father\u2019s father. I saw my father\u2019s brother and his family no more than a dozen times while I was growing up. My mother was an only child whose parents died before I was born and so the tragedy is that while I had grandparents living, one of them refused to meet his grandchildren and the other was too scared to try and have a relationship with her grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>This compounded my parents\u2019 decision to raise us to self-identify as Black&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swirlnationblog.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/12\/why-self-identifying-as-multiracial-is-still-new-and-not-automatic-for-me\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Self-Identifying As Multiracial Is Still New And Not Automatic For Me Swirl Nation Blog 2016-10-12 Sarah Ratliff I grew up in New York City during the 1960s and 70s. Although I grew up in a very racially, ethnically and culturally diverse area\u2014which included several interracial families\u2014it wasn\u2019t the norm to raise kids in 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":[21191,23471],"class_list":["post-49441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-sarah-ratliff","tag-swirl-nation-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49441","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=49441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49442,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49441\/revisions\/49442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}