{"id":54540,"date":"2017-07-16T03:39:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T03:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54540"},"modified":"2017-07-16T03:39:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T03:39:01","slug":"rachel-dolezal-represents-everything-i-ever-feared-people-would-think-about-me-when-i-told-them-i-was-half-nigerian-half-austrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54540","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Dolezal represents everything I ever feared people would think about me when I told them I was half Nigerian-half Austrian."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rachel_Dolezal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachel Dolezal<\/a> represents everything I ever feared people would think about me when I told them I was half Nigerian-half Austrian. She embodies\u00a0the cause of the doubt I first see flash across people\u2019s faces when I tell them that yes, my biological mother is black, my father is white and I am a product of the two. The idea that someone would ever associate the two of us makes me feel ill and yet as I read about her I wonder increasingly where this leaves me. Where my voice fits into this story and whether or not I have the right to comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nina\u00a0Grossfurthner, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cSo If You\u2019re From Africa, Why Are You White?\u201d<\/a>,\u201c <em>FLY (Freedom. Love. You.)<\/em>, March 16, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/flygirlsofcambridge.com\/2017\/03\/16\/so-if-youre-from-africa-why-are-you-white-nina-grossfurthner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/flygirlsofcambridge.com\/2017\/03\/16\/so-if-youre-from-africa-why-are-you-white-nina-grossfurthner\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Dolezal represents everything I ever feared people would think about me when I told them I was half Nigerian-half Austrian. She embodies\u00a0the cause of the doubt I first see flash across people\u2019s faces when I tell them that yes, my biological mother is black, my father is white and I am a product of [&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":[27299,27300,20241],"class_list":["post-54540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-fly","tag-nina-grossfurthner","tag-rachel-dolezal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54540","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=54540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54541,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54540\/revisions\/54541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}