{"id":53169,"date":"2017-04-01T01:27:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T01:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53169"},"modified":"2017-04-01T01:27:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T01:27:30","slug":"piya-on-race-identity-and-ticking-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53169","title":{"rendered":"Piya on race, identity and ticking boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/outintheopen\/rachel-dolezal-1.4039362\/piya-on-race-identity-and-ticking-boxes-1.4039707\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Piya on race, identity and ticking boxes<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/outintheopen\" target=\"_blank\">Out in the Open with Piya Chattopadhyay<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBC Radio<\/a><br \/>\n2017-03-27<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piya_Chattopadhyay\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Piya Chattopadhyay<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Host<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/outintheopen\/rachel-dolezal-1.4039362\/piya-on-race-identity-and-ticking-boxes-1.4039707\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.4039804.1490388758!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/16x9_940\/piya-and-kid-1.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Piya and her daughter<\/small><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.cbc.ca\/i\/caffeine\/syndicate\/?mediaId=905914435939\" width=\"360\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A month after <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rachel_Dolezal\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Dolezal<\/a> was propelled into the public spotlight in 2015, the American writer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ta-Nehisi_Coates\" target=\"_blank\">Ta-Nehisi Coates&#8217;<\/a> book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/220290\/between-the-world-and-me-by-ta-nehisi-coates\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Between the World and Me<\/em><\/a> came out.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s essentially a letter to his son about the bleak realities of being black in America today.<\/p>\n<p>And like one of those memories that seem so present, so real you can almost touch them, I clearly recall my white husband coming home, after he finished reading Ta-Nehisi&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n<p>He was standing on our back porch, and he asked me how I \u2014 a woman of Indian heritage, a woman who is undeniably brown \u2014 felt about our biological kids, who are biracial, but look outwardly white&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/outintheopen\/rachel-dolezal-1.4039362\/piya-on-race-identity-and-ticking-boxes-1.4039707\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Listen to the story (00:03:42) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/piya-on-race-identity-and-ticking-boxes-1.4040570?autoplay=true\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month after Rachel Dolezal was propelled into the public spotlight in 2015, the American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates&#8217; book &#8220;Between the World and Me&#8221; came out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2850,19,125,8],"tags":[25461,26743,6967],"class_list":["post-53169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-audio","category-canada","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-cbc-radio","tag-out-in-the-open-with-piya-chattopadhyay","tag-piya-chattopadhyay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53169","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=53169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53170,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53169\/revisions\/53170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}