{"id":52494,"date":"2017-03-15T00:54:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T00:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52494"},"modified":"2017-03-15T00:54:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T00:54:21","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-colorism-as-told-by-a-light-skinned-black-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52494","title":{"rendered":"What You Need To Know About Colorism, As Told By A Light Skinned Black Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elitedaily.com\/life\/culture\/need-know-colorism-told-light-skinned-black-woman\/1812348\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>What You Need To Know About Colorism, As Told By A Light Skinned Black Woman<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elitedaily.com\" target=\"_blank\">Elite Daily<\/a><br \/>\n2017-03-07<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jenziino\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jenna Graham<\/strong><\/a>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elitedaily.com\/life\/culture\/need-know-colorism-told-light-skinned-black-woman\/1812348\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.elitestatic.com\/m\/650583850c748c1b\/black-woman-with-curly-hair.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Boris Jovanovic<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you mixed with?\u201d is something I\u2019m asked regularly. It\u2019s the most common question I receive from a stranger, and it still manages to get deep under my skin.I raise my eyebrow and respond with a blunt, \u201cI\u2019m black,\u201d only to be challenged with \u201cblack and what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I respond \u201cjust black,\u201d and when I can\u2019t resist being slick I\u2019ll answer, \u201cblack and proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Being black, despite all the ugly we\u2019ve endured, is the most remarkable experience I\u2019ll ever know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/elitedaily.com\/life\/culture\/need-know-colorism-told-light-skinned-black-woman\/1812348\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat are you mixed with?\u201d is something I\u2019m asked regularly. It\u2019s the most common question I receive from a stranger, and it still manages to get deep under my skin.I raise my eyebrow and respond with a blunt, \u201cI\u2019m black,\u201d only to be challenged with \u201cblack and what?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,23674,394,20],"tags":[240,22578,26480],"class_list":["post-52494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-colorism","tag-elite-daily","tag-jenna-graham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52494","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=52494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52495,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52494\/revisions\/52495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}