{"id":50945,"date":"2016-12-27T15:28:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T15:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50945"},"modified":"2016-12-27T15:28:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T15:28:26","slug":"meet-the-black-americans-going-home-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50945","title":{"rendered":"Meet the black Americans going home to China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet the black Americans going home to China<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Cable News Network<\/a> (CNN)
\n2016-12-27<\/p>\n

Yazhou Sun<\/strong><\/a>, Producer
\nCNN International<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Paula Madison grew up knowing she was different.<\/p>\n

Born in the predominantly African-American neighborhood of Harlem, New York<\/a>, she was raised by a single mother who looked Chinese.<\/p>\n

“When my mother opened the door and told me that dinner is ready, other kids would be very surprised,” Paula says. “Sometimes, they’d start using racial slurs.”<\/p>\n

Madison’s father was African-Jamaican and left her mother when she was three.<\/p>\n

“My mother always looked sad because she was away from her family,” she says. “I’ve known for my whole life that my grandfather is Chinese. I thought helping my mother find her family would make her happy.”<\/p>\n

Paula knew that her grandfather had gone to Jamaica<\/a> from China<\/a> in 1905 to work on a sugar plantation and after his contract was fulfilled, he stayed in Jamaica to open a store.<\/p>\n

She was determined to find out which village he came from and if he had any living relatives in China, but the only clue she had was her grandfather’s name: Samuel Lowe…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet the black Americans going home to China Cable News Network (CNN) 2016-12-27 Yazhou Sun, Producer CNN International Paula Madison grew up knowing she was different. Born in the predominantly African-American neighborhood of Harlem, New York, she was raised by a single mother who looked Chinese. “When my mother opened the door and told me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,1245,8,20],"tags":[221,3142,80,25881,18322,25880],"class_list":["post-50945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-china","tag-cnn","tag-jamaica","tag-paula-madison","tag-samuel-lowe","tag-yazhou-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50945","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=50945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50946,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50945\/revisions\/50946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}