{"id":55131,"date":"2017-11-13T00:57:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T00:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55131"},"modified":"2017-11-13T00:57:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T00:57:15","slug":"gerald-and-i-want-langston-to-know-where-he-comes-from-so-that-he-can-take-pride-in-his-culture-his-people-his-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55131","title":{"rendered":"Gerald and I want Langston to know where he comes from \u2014 so that he can take pride in his culture, his people, his identity."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Gerald and I want Langston to know where he comes from \u2014 so that he can take pride in his culture, his people, his identity. We want him to appreciate that the history of black people does not begin at slavery and end after the civil rights era. We want his Chinese American influences to be more than just a footnote to a largely white and black narrative, more than a mention of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lunar_New_Year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lunar New Year<\/a> every winter. Home schooling, we thought, could be the answer to many of these concerns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tracy Jan, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Worried about racism\u2019s impact on her biracial son, a mother looks at home schooling<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Washington Post Magazine<\/em>, November 9, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/magazine\/worried-about-racisms-impact-on-her-biracial-son-a-mother-looks-at-homeschooling\/2017\/11\/08\/09da0baa-b509-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/magazine\/worried-about-racisms-impact-on-her-biracial-son-a-mother-looks-at-homeschooling\/2017\/11\/08\/09da0baa-b509-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald and I want Langston to know where he comes from \u2014 so that he can take pride in his culture, his people, his identity. We want him to appreciate that the history of black people does not begin at slavery and end after the civil rights era. We want his Chinese American influences to [&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":[2875,27606,27608,2581,27607],"class_list":["post-55131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-the-washington-post","tag-the-washington-post-magazine","tag-tracy-jan","tag-washington-post","tag-washington-post-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55131","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=55131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55132,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55131\/revisions\/55132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}