{"id":50821,"date":"2016-12-20T02:37:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T02:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50821"},"modified":"2017-05-28T20:49:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T20:49:58","slug":"when-i-say-im-black-people-try-to-negotiate-this-telling-me-no-youre-not-black-you-are-mestico-you-are-mulata-and-they-think-theyre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50821","title":{"rendered":"When I say \u201cI\u2019m black,\u201d people try to negotiate this telling me: \u201cNo, you\u2019re not black, you are mesti\u00e7o, you are mulata.\u201d And they think they\u2019re doing me a favor not calling me a black woman."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cAs a daughter of a black mother and a white father, we have here in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brazil<\/a> this kind of negotiation about identity. When I say \u201cI\u2019m black,\u201d people try to negotiate this telling me: \u201cNo, you\u2019re not black, you are <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mesti%C3%A7o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mesti\u00e7o<\/a><\/em>, you are <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mulata<\/a><\/em>.\u201d And they think they\u2019re doing me a favor not calling me a black woman.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/pt.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ana_Maria_Gon%C3%A7alves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ana Maria Gon\u00e7alves<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FPFj5ToQ9xc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ana Maria Gon\u00e7alves &#8211; New columnist for <em>The Intercept<\/em><\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCNqzAD9EiECreuH6LA8IYeA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Intercept Brasil<\/em><\/a>, December 2, 2016. (00:00:20-00:00:46).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FPFj5ToQ9xc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FPFj5ToQ9xc<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs a daughter of a black mother and a white father, we have here in Brazil this kind of negotiation about identity. When I say \u201cI\u2019m black,\u201d people try to negotiate this telling me: \u201cNo, you\u2019re not black, you are mesti\u00e7o, you are mulata.\u201d And they think they\u2019re doing me a favor not calling me a black woman.\u201d<\/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":[25753,25811],"class_list":["post-50821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-ana-maria-goncalves","tag-the-intercept-brasil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50821","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=50821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54040,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50821\/revisions\/54040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}