{"id":501,"date":"2013-02-25T00:48:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T00:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=501"},"modified":"2017-05-28T15:21:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T15:21:48","slug":"women-of-mixed-racial-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"Woman of mixed racial heritage have historically been described as exotic, a term with simultaneously positive and negative connotations."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Woman of mixed racial heritage have historically been described as <em>exotic<\/em>, a term with simultaneously positive and negative connotations. Despite its\u00a0 various meanings, it always had a sexual connotation to it. On one hand it was a coded term for objectifying and fantasizing what such woman sexually offered that might be different from other women.\u00a0 On the other hand, it was term that suggested that such a woman was physically attractive in a way that set her apart from other women. This latter issue has made women, <strong><em>more than men of mixed race<\/em><\/strong>, the subject of suspicion and jealousy in heterosexually driven relationships in communities of color, because a woman&#8217;s social worth has historically been attached to her physical appearance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maria P. P. Root, \u201cFrom Exotic to Dime a Dozen,\u201d In\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biracial Women In Therapy: Between the Rock of Gender and the Hard Place of Race<\/a><\/em>, edited by Angela R. Gillem, Ph.D., Cathy A. Thompson, Ph.D., (New York, London, Oxford: The Hawford Press, 2004), 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite its\u00a0 various meanings, it always had a sexual connotation to it. On one hand it was a coded term for objectifying and fantasizing what such woman sexually offered that might be different from other women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27021,140,6999,27020],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-hawford-press","tag-maria-p-p-root","tag-maria-primitiva-paz-root","tag-the-hawford-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","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=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54008,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/54008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}