{"id":52536,"date":"2017-03-16T01:32:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T01:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52536"},"modified":"2017-03-16T20:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T20:14:52","slug":"mind-the-gap-mixed-race-mindset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52536","title":{"rendered":"Mind the Gap: Mixed-race mindset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tuftsdaily.com\/features\/2017\/03\/14\/mind-gap-mixed-race-mindset\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Mind the Gap: Mixed-race mindset<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tuftsdaily.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Tufts Daily<\/a><br \/>\nMedford, Massachusetts<br \/>\n2017-03-14<\/p>\n<p><strong>MJ Greigo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most strangers who pass me on the street think I\u2019m white. I don\u2019t blame them for this, as I\u2019m pale as hell. I got some sort of mid-point of my parents\u2019 genes: my obviously brown father and my paper-white mom, his black hair and her light brown, her 5-foot-7-inches and his 6-foot-4-inches. Growing up, I got so tan in the summers, and I brought in Nana Griego\u2019s homemade tortillas for show and tell. My friends joked about how I loved burritos and that I was like a maid. The confusion of childhood takes a lifetime to unpack, and I find myself looking back with terror on things that I couldn\u2019t have understood at the time. Yet without fully knowing about their repercussions, these tiny moments come together to form a huge part of the way everyone sees\u00a0the world&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/tuftsdaily.com\/features\/2017\/03\/14\/mind-gap-mixed-race-mindset\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most strangers who pass me on the street think I\u2019m white. I don\u2019t blame them for this, as I\u2019m pale as hell. I got some sort of mid-point of my parents\u2019 genes: my obviously brown father and my paper-white mom, his black hair and her light brown, her 5-foot-7-inches and his 6-foot-4-inches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,6462,20],"tags":[26520,26519,5502,18162],"class_list":["post-52536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-m-j-greigo","tag-mj-greigo","tag-the-tufts-daily","tag-tufts-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52536","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=52536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52537,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52536\/revisions\/52537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}