{"id":55016,"date":"2017-10-07T21:32:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T21:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55016"},"modified":"2017-10-07T21:32:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T21:32:04","slug":"still-processing-being-biracial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55016","title":{"rendered":"Still Processing: Being Biracial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still Processing: Being Biracial<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Still Processing<\/a>
\nThe New York Times<\/a>
\n2017-10-05<\/p>\n

Wesley Morris<\/strong><\/a> and Jenna Wortham<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nRashida Jones<\/a> as Santamonica, the sister of Tracee Ellis Ross\u2019s<\/a> character on ABC\u2019s \u201cBlack-ish<\/a>.\u201d
\nCredit Kelsey McNeal\/Getty Images<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For months, the two of us have been trying to figure out a way to have a conversation about the experience of being biracial. This week we just go for it. First, we talk about the cultural and historical suspicion America still has of black-white interracial romantic relationships. It gives us an excuse to revisit the reason \u201cGet Out<\/a>\u201d has been one of the year\u2019s major movies: It articulates the previously inarticulable about race. Then we consider the offspring of interracial coupling \u2014 whether the possibility of occupying two identities (or more) is a choice, a luxury or a delusion; and what fears, doubts or envy nonbiracial black Americans might feel about biracial black Americans. We drop in on Spike Lee\u2019s<\/a> \u201cSchool Daze<\/a>\u201d and the sitcom \u201cBlack-ish<\/a>.\u201d We consider our feelings about Rashida Jones<\/a>, Drake<\/a> and Vin Diesel<\/a>. We unpack the writings of Zadie Smith<\/a> and Barack Obama<\/a>. And we kind of have to ask: Aren\u2019t we all a little bit mixed?<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We unpack the writings of Zadie Smith and Barack Obama. And we kind of have to ask: Aren\u2019t we all a little bit mixed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,1196,8,20],"tags":[16941,2327,21430],"class_list":["post-55016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-jenna-wortham","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-wesley-morris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55016","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=55016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55018,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55016\/revisions\/55018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}