{"id":52601,"date":"2017-03-19T01:10:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T01:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52601"},"modified":"2017-03-19T21:44:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T21:44:14","slug":"my-mum-always-told-me-i-was-white-like-her-now-i-know-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52601","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My mum always told me I was white, like her. Now I know the truth\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018My mum always told me I was white, like her. Now I know the truth\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2017-03-18<\/p>\n

Georgina Lawton<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nGeorgina Lawton<\/a>: \u2018Even though I would look in the mirror and see a brown, dark-eyed girl, I couldn\u2019t identify as black.\u2019<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

As a child in a white Anglo-Irish family, Georgina Lawton\u2019s<\/a> curiosity about her dark skin colour was constantly brushed aside. Only when her father died did the truth surface<\/em><\/p>\n

You might not think it to look at me, but my upbringing was a very Anglo-Irish affair. I grew up on the outskirts of London<\/a> with my blue-eyed younger brother, British father and Irish mother. Many happy weeks of the school holidays were spent in Ireland<\/a> and I was educated at a Catholic school in Surrey<\/a>. We ate roast beef<\/a> and yorkshire puddings<\/a> on Sundays, and Thin Lizzy<\/a>, Van Morrison<\/a> and the Clash<\/a> formed the soundtrack to our lazy weekends.<\/p>\n

The only peculiar aspect to all this was the defining aspect of my identity. Because, although I look mixed-race, or black, my whole family is white. And until the man I called Dad died two years ago, I did not know the truth about my existence. Now, age 24, I\u2019m starting to uncover where I come from…<\/p>\n

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

As a child in a white Anglo-Irish family, Georgina Lawton\u2019s curiosity about her dark skin colour was constantly brushed aside. Only when her father died did the truth surface<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,28,414,125,8,10],"tags":[26540,246,2103],"class_list":["post-52601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-europe","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-georgina-lawton","tag-ireland","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52601","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=52601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52603,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52601\/revisions\/52603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}