{"id":50026,"date":"2016-11-19T15:11:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T15:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50026"},"modified":"2016-11-19T15:11:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T15:11:32","slug":"so-my-mum-was-irish-but-shes-trinidadian-and-my-dads-nigerian-but-hes-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50026","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSo my mum was Irish but she\u2019s Trinidadian, and my dad\u2019s Nigerian but he\u2019s Irish.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emmadabiri.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Emma] Dabiri\u2019s<\/a> own story serves as a typically atypical example. Her mother was born to white Irish parents in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trinidad\" target=\"_blank\">Trinidad<\/a>, where Dabiri\u2019s maternal grandfather worked as a civil engineer. Her father was born to black Nigerian parents in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ireland\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland<\/a> before moving back to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nigeria\" target=\"_blank\">Nigeria<\/a>, and Dabiri herself was raised in her paternal grandparents\u2019 house in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlanta\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta, Georgia<\/a>, before returning to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dublin\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin<\/a> aged five. In summary? \u201cSo my mum was Irish but she\u2019s Trinidadian, and my dad\u2019s Nigerian but he\u2019s Irish,\u201d she laughs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ellen E. Jones, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50007\" target=\"_blank\">BBC\u2019s Emma Dabiri says her first time in Brixton was like discovering a black utopia<\/a>,\u201d <em>Evening Standard<\/em>, November 17, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/lifestyle\/london-life\/bbcs-emma-dabiri-says-her-first-time-in-brixton-was-like-discovering-a-black-utopia-a3397851.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/lifestyle\/london-life\/bbcs-emma-dabiri-says-her-first-time-in-brixton-was-like-discovering-a-black-utopia-a3397851.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Emma] Dabiri\u2019s own story serves as a typically atypical example. Her mother was born to white Irish parents in Trinidad, where Dabiri\u2019s maternal grandfather worked as a civil engineer. Her father was born to black Nigerian parents in Ireland before moving back to Nigeria, and Dabiri herself was raised in her paternal grandparents\u2019 house in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25444,25445,13842,25454,7248],"class_list":["post-50026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-ellen-e-jones","tag-ellen-jones","tag-emma-dabiri","tag-evening-standard","tag-london-evening-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50026","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=50026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50027,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50026\/revisions\/50027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}