{"id":53974,"date":"2017-05-18T16:49:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T16:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53974"},"modified":"2017-05-18T16:49:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T16:49:39","slug":"rachel-dolezal-luvvie-and-the-boundaries-of-blackness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53974","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Dolezal, Luvvie and the boundaries of Blackness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sdcitybeat.com\/culture\/at-the-intersection\/rachel-dolezal-luvvie-and-the-boundaries-of-blackness\/#undefined.gbpl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Rachel Dolezal, Luvvie and the boundaries of Blackness<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sdcitybeat.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Diego City Beat<\/a><br \/>\n2017-05-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mindahoney.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Minda Honey<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sdcitybeat.com\/culture\/at-the-intersection\/rachel-dolezal-luvvie-and-the-boundaries-of-blackness\/#undefined.gbpl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sdcitybeat.com\/downloads\/24605\/download\/mindaheadshot.jpg?cb=ed504b272ac016ade284a3bbf8822494&amp;w=936&amp;h=\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mindahoney.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><small><em>Minda Honey<\/em><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Just because I\u2019m biracial, that doesn\u2019t mean I didn\u2019t put in the work<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0sat nearly knee-to-knee with my professor in his cramped office. Pulled up on his computer was my latest essay. I was trying, rather unsuccessfully, to write about my experience growing up Black and Filipino in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kentucky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kentucky<\/a>. I wrote about my mother, born and raised in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manila\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manila<\/a> by her mother. About her Black father who lived in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California<\/a>. About my mother\u2019s skin, pale as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cashew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cashews<\/a> and lighter than my own. I wrote about what it was like for her to marry a Black man and move to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S.<\/a> only to be confronted, through her children, with the same racism that had plagued her much darker siblings their entire lives.<\/p>\n<p>My professor wanted to know, \u201cWhy now?\u201d Why was I writing about all of this now? Was it because identity politics were in vogue?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/sdcitybeat.com\/culture\/at-the-intersection\/rachel-dolezal-luvvie-and-the-boundaries-of-blackness\/#undefined.gbpl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because I\u2019m biracial, that doesn\u2019t mean I didn\u2019t put in the work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,8,20],"tags":[27010,27009,20241,27008],"class_list":["post-53974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-luvvie","tag-minda-honey","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-san-diego-city-beat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53974","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=53974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53975,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53974\/revisions\/53975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}