{"id":54365,"date":"2017-06-29T21:32:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T21:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54365"},"modified":"2017-06-29T21:34:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T21:34:43","slug":"yes-im-mixed-race-theres-girls-who-look-like-me-and-glorify-being-exotic-i-have-a-responsibility-to-my-blackness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54365","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYes, I\u2019m mixed-race. There\u2019s girls who look like me and glorify being exotic. I have a responsibility to my Blackness.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m a Brown Afro-indigenous woman. That makes people uncomfortable as it is. The folks that have a problem with me and say, \u2018You still live with privilege. You not fully Black.\u2019 I can\u2019t win and I can\u2019t lose, so I\u2019ma just keep going.\u201d She smiles. \u201cYes, I\u2019m mixed-race. There\u2019s girls who look like me and glorify being exotic. I have a responsibility to my Blackness.\u201d\u00a0\u2014Princess Nokia (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Destiny_Frasqueri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Destiny Frasqueri<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ivie Ani, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Princess Nokia Is Ready to Reign<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Village Voice<\/em>, March 29, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2017\/03\/29\/princess-nokia-is-ready-to-reign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2017\/03\/29\/princess-nokia-is-ready-to-reign\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m a Brown Afro-indigenous woman. That makes people uncomfortable as it is. The folks that have a problem with me and say, \u2018You still live with privilege. You not fully Black.\u2019 I can\u2019t win and I can\u2019t lose, so I\u2019ma just keep going.\u201d She smiles. \u201cYes, I\u2019m mixed-race. There\u2019s girls who look like me and [&hellip;]<\/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":[27179,27180,27190,27184,27181,11098,601],"class_list":["post-54365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-destiny-frasqueri","tag-destiny-nicole-frasqueri","tag-ivie-ani","tag-ivie-okechukwu-ani","tag-princess-nokia","tag-the-village-voice","tag-village-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54365","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=54365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54366,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54365\/revisions\/54366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}