{"id":54676,"date":"2017-07-30T17:38:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T17:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54676"},"modified":"2017-07-30T18:18:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T18:18:26","slug":"understand-the-challenge-of-overcoming-colorism-it-is-everywhere-in-our-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54676","title":{"rendered":"I understand the challenge of overcoming colorism. It. Is. EVERYWHERE in our culture."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I understand the challenge of overcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">colorism<\/a>. It. Is. EVERYWHERE in our culture. From the time we are children, we are praised or tutted at simply because of our physical features. He\u2019s light skinned, you\u2019ll have such cute babies, or, your daughter is so pretty, but she\u2019s so dark. I spent many a night in the shower, scrubbing myself furiously with my mother\u2019s skin whitening soap, willing it to make me a little lighter, my eyes a little greener, my hair a little more blonde and straight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yesenia Padilla, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54666\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorism in Latinx Communities<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Lumen Blog<\/em>, July 16, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumenmag.net\/blog\/colorism-in-latinx-communities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.lumenmag.net\/blog\/colorism-in-latinx-communities<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand the challenge of overcoming colorism. It. Is. EVERYWHERE in our culture. From the time we are children, we are praised or tutted at simply because of our physical features. He\u2019s light skinned, you\u2019ll have such cute babies, or, your daughter is so pretty, but she\u2019s so dark. I spent many a night in [&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":[27388,27387,27386,24146],"class_list":["post-54676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-lumen","tag-lumen-blog","tag-the-lumen-blog","tag-yesenia-padilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54676","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=54676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54684,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54676\/revisions\/54684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}