{"id":52740,"date":"2017-03-22T15:50:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T15:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52740"},"modified":"2017-03-22T20:38:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T20:38:37","slug":"what-corn-island-taught-me-about-black-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52740","title":{"rendered":"What Corn Island taught me about black identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlunfurled.com\/2016\/12\/08\/what-big-corn-island-taught-me-about-black-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>What Corn Island taught me about black identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlunfurled.com\" target=\"_blank\">Girl Unfurled<\/a><br \/>\n2016-12-08<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorginaLawton\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Georgina Lawton<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlunfurled.com\/2016\/12\/08\/what-big-corn-island-taught-me-about-black-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/girlunfurled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Travelling-7.png\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou\u2019re not black here. The locals won\u2019t call you black\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These were some of the first words uttered to me by a (white, European, male) island inhabitant when I arrived on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corn_Islands\" target=\"_blank\">Big Corn Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou\u2019s a white gyal,\u201d<\/em> another friend who was born and raised on the island his whole life, told me on the bleach-white sands, one blisteringly hot day.<\/p>\n<p>I remember looking at all the other people, similar in shade to me and I felt\u2026\u00a0<em>un poco confuso<\/em> (a little confused).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why could I not be black here?!<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/girlunfurled.com\/2016\/12\/08\/what-big-corn-island-taught-me-about-black-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to spend time in the Corn Islandisland to see if it would feel\u2026familiar. I was eager to discover if,\u00a0after finding out I had a black parent, the Caribbean would be somewhat comfortable to me. If being around non-white Creole-speaking people would light a fire of familiarity deep within me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,21,125,8],"tags":[26614,26615,26540,26613],"class_list":["post-52740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-latincarib","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-corn-island","tag-corn-islands","tag-georgina-lawton","tag-girl-unfurled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52740","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=52740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52742,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52740\/revisions\/52742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}