{"id":50495,"date":"2016-12-08T03:23:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T03:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50495"},"modified":"2016-12-08T03:23:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T03:23:12","slug":"skin-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50495","title":{"rendered":"Skin deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.northbynorthwestern.com\/magazine\/2016\/fall\/features\/skin-deep\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Skin deep<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northbynorthwestern.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">North By Northwestern<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/apps.northbynorthwestern.com\/magazine\/2016\/fall\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fall 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/miraw\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mira Wang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.northbynorthwestern.com\/magazine\/2016\/fall\/features\/skin-deep\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/apps.northbynorthwestern.com\/magazine\/2016\/fall\/features\/skin-deep\/mira.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Photo by Alex Furuya \/ <em>North by Northwestern<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p><em>Cracking the foundations of white beauty.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I was younger, my Asian American friends and I would play house. We\u2019d be older, popular and wise to the world. We\u2019d have cars and phones and play dates at the mall. We had freedom there. I could be anyone.<\/p>\n<p>I could even be white.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJordan,\u201d my most-loved pretend character, had brunette-not-black, wavy-not-straight hair. She didn\u2019t wear glasses. She played some white-dominated sport like volleyball and went to the mall whenever she wanted. All the boys wanted to date her \u2013 even the white boys. She was \u201cAmerican,\u201d as my parents would say. She looked like she belonged.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t. I can tell stories about being paired automatically with the only other Asian boy in my classes, about \u201cchink!\u201d being screamed through an open car window as my sister and I walked home from school, about avoiding one of the only other Asian girls in my sixth grade class because the bullies were after her, for being too Asian, too quiet.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I\u2019ll tell what I learned. People treat me differently because of how I look. White beauty norms are narrowly defined: My eyes are too small, and my hair too black, for white people to count as theirs. This means that I am \u201cAsian\u201d \u2013 I am labeled, and everything else they know about me will be in the context of that one racial signifier. It means people will meet me and think \u201cAsian,\u201d quiet, boring, studious \u2013 or even just \u201cAsian,\u201d chink. It means I am either only beautiful enough for Asian boys, or only beautiful because I am Asian&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.northbynorthwestern.com\/magazine\/2016\/fall\/features\/skin-deep\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skin deep North By Northwestern Fall 2016 Mira Wang Photo by Alex Furuya \/ North by Northwestern Cracking the foundations of white beauty. When I was younger, my Asian American friends and I would play house. We\u2019d be older, popular and wise to the world. We\u2019d have cars and phones and play dates at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,8,20],"tags":[25661,25660],"class_list":["post-50495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-mira-wang","tag-north-by-northwestern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50495","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=50495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50496,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50495\/revisions\/50496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}