{"id":55007,"date":"2017-10-07T20:47:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T20:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55007"},"modified":"2017-10-07T20:49:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T20:49:03","slug":"ijeoma-oluo-i-am-drowning-in-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55007","title":{"rendered":"Ijeoma Oluo: &#8216;I am drowning in whiteness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kuow.org\/post\/ijeoma-oluo-i-am-drowning-whiteness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Ijeoma Oluo: &#8216;I am drowning in whiteness&#8217;<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kuow.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio<\/a><br \/>\nSeattle, Washington<br \/>\n2017-10-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijeomaoluo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ijeoma Oluo<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/kuow.org\/post\/ijeoma-oluo-i-am-drowning-whiteness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mediad.publicbroadcasting.net\/p\/kuow\/files\/styles\/medium\/public\/201704\/neutral.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seattle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seattle<\/a> writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijeomaoluo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ijeoma Oluo<\/a><br \/>\n<em>KUOW Photo\/Bond Huberman<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Hi, I am <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijeomaoluo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ijeoma Oluo<\/a>,\u00a0and I am a mixed race black woman who was raised by a white mother in this very white city.<\/p>\n<p>I have a Ph.D. in whiteness, and\u00a0I was raised in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seattle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seattle<\/a> nice.&#8221; I was\u00a0steeped in the good intentions of this city and I hate it.<\/p>\n<p>I love this city. I love you guys. Also, I hate it. I really do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/kuow.org\/post\/ijeoma-oluo-i-am-drowning-whiteness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Listen to the story (00:10:24) <a href=\"https:\/\/cpa.ds.npr.org\/kuow\/audio\/2017\/10\/ijeoma_pchkch_01.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I am Ijeoma Oluo,\u00a0and I am a mixed race black woman who was raised by a white mother in this very white city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2850,395,414,8,23674,20],"tags":[20411,14428,27555,5409,2685],"class_list":["post-55007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-audio","category-autobiography","category-family","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-ijeoma-oluo","tag-kuow","tag-kuow-puget-sound-public-radio","tag-seattle","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55007","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=55007"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55011,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55007\/revisions\/55011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}