{"id":51504,"date":"2017-02-11T20:43:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T20:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51504"},"modified":"2017-02-11T20:44:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T20:44:45","slug":"to-be-black-doesnt-have-to-mean-anything-more-than-what-i-already-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51504","title":{"rendered":"‘To be black doesn\u2019t have to mean anything more than what I already am’"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘To be black doesn\u2019t have to mean anything more than what I already am’<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>
\n2016-02-06<\/p>\n

Sofiya Ballin<\/strong><\/a>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nSonia Galiber<\/a>, Director of Operations at Urban Creators
\nMichael Bryant<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For Black History Month<\/a>, we’re exploring history and identity through the lens of joy. Black joy is the ability to love and celebrate black people and culture, despite the world dictating otherwise. Black joy is liberation.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sonia Galiber<\/strong><\/a>, 25, Director of Operations
\nPhilly Urban Creators<\/a>, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n

My high school was pretty segregated. As a biracial kid, I didn\u2019t know what to do. I wasn\u2019t black enough or Asian enough. That\u2019s when I developed an inferiority complex.<\/p>\n

Throughout all of this, I\u2019m also dealing with needing to be Japanese enough. My mother\u2019s family didn\u2019t approve of my parents\u2019 marriage. My grandparents got to know my dad, but there are some extended family members that I\u2019m just meeting.<\/p>\n

It was a motivating force for me. I went to Japanese school every Saturday from third grade to high school. That was an identity I was chasing in the same way that I was chasing blackness…<\/p>\n

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

‘To be black doesn\u2019t have to mean anything more than what I already am’ The Philadelphia Inquirer 2016-02-06 Sofiya Ballin, Staff Writer Sonia Galiber, Director of Operations at Urban Creators Michael Bryant For Black History Month, we’re exploring history and identity through the lens of joy. Black joy is the ability to love and celebrate […]<\/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":[4889,4888,11148,26193,26192,6627],"class_list":["post-51504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-inquirer","tag-sofiya-ballin","tag-sonia-galiber","tag-the-philadelphia-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51504","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=51504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51525,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51504\/revisions\/51525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}