{"id":54830,"date":"2017-08-17T04:22:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T04:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54830"},"modified":"2017-08-17T04:22:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T04:22:41","slug":"i-look-like-a-white-girl-but-i-dont-feel-like-one-im-a-black-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54830","title":{"rendered":"I look like a white girl, but I don\u2019t feel like one. I\u2019m a black woman."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">white-passing<\/a>. I\u2019ve accepted that about myself and have never tried to control anything about black culture that\u2019s not mine. I\u2019m proud to be in a biracial family, I\u2019m proud of who I am, and I\u2019m proud of my hair. One of my big jokes a long time ago was \u201cI look white, but I still have white boys in my life asking me why my nipples are brown.\u201d Every now and then I experience these racial blips. I look like a white girl, but I don\u2019t feel like one. I\u2019m a black woman. So it\u2019s been weird navigating that. When I was growing up I didn\u2019t know if I was supposed to love <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TLC_(group)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TLC<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Britney_Spears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Britney<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Halsey_(singer)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Halsey<\/a> (Ashley Nicolette Frangipane)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rebecca Haithcoat, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Halsey Covers Our Music Issue\u2014and Proves No Topic is Off-limits<\/a>,\u201d <em>Playboy<\/em>, August 15, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playboy.com\/articles\/20q-halsey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.playboy.com\/articles\/20q-halsey<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m white-passing. I\u2019ve accepted that about myself and have never tried to control anything about black culture that\u2019s not mine. I\u2019m proud to be in a biracial family, I\u2019m proud of who I am, and I\u2019m proud of my hair. One of my big jokes a long time ago was \u201cI look white, but I [&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":[27465,27464,24078,25651],"class_list":["post-54830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-ashley-nicolette-frangipane","tag-halsey","tag-playboy","tag-rebecca-haithcoat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54830","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=54830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54831,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54830\/revisions\/54831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}