{"id":52613,"date":"2017-03-19T01:57:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T01:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52613"},"modified":"2017-03-19T02:23:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T02:23:04","slug":"whiteness-is-pure-and-doesnt-extend-to-brown-girls-even-those-who-can-trace-their-irish-ancestry-back-to-the-10th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52613","title":{"rendered":"Whiteness is \u201cpure\u201d and doesn\u2019t extend to brown girls, even those who can trace their Irish ancestry back to the 10th century."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Specifically, many of the problems arose out of my claims of Irishness itself. That was what really seemed to offend people\u2019s sensibilities. Irishness is synonymous with whiteness, it seemed. Whiteness is \u201cpure\u201d and doesn\u2019t extend to brown girls, even those who can trace their Irish ancestry back to the 10th century. How frequently I heard that I \u201cwasn\u2019t really Irish\u201d. But I am Irish. In addition to being born there, my mother, her parents before her, and theirs before them, for generations and generations, are all Irish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDiasporaDiva\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Dabiri<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46289\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019m Irish but I\u2019m not white. Why is that still a problem as we celebrate the Easter Rising?<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Guardian<\/em>, March 29, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/mar\/29\/irish-white-easter-rising-ireland-racism\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/mar\/29\/irish-white-easter-rising-ireland-racism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whiteness is \u201cpure\u201d and doesn\u2019t extend to brown girls, even those who can trace their Irish ancestry back to the 10th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13842,2103],"class_list":["post-52613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-emma-dabiri","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52613","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=52613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52614,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52613\/revisions\/52614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}