{"id":55210,"date":"2017-11-20T01:30:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T01:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55210"},"modified":"2017-11-20T01:31:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T01:31:32","slug":"i-tried-to-be-what-white-people-valued-a-searing-memoir-of-growing-up-biracial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55210","title":{"rendered":"‘I tried to be what white people valued’ \u2014 a searing memoir of growing up biracial"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘I tried to be what white people valued’ \u2014 a searing memoir of growing up biracial<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Chicago Tribune<\/a>
\n2017-11-10<\/p>\n

Heidi Stevens<\/strong><\/a>, Contact Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nJulie Lythcott-Haims’<\/a> “Real American: A Memoir<\/a>\u201d tells her story of growing up with an African-American father and a white British mother in the 1970s and early \u201980s in New York<\/a>, Wisconsin<\/a> and Virginia<\/a>. (Julie Lythcott-Haims photo by Kristina Vetter)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Julie Lythcott-Haims<\/a> has written a deeply affecting memoir about growing up biracial.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s poetic and candid, and it dives into discussions we really ought to be having about race in America \u2014 past, present and future.<\/p>\n

\u201cReal American: A Memoir<\/a>\u201d (Henry Holt) tells Lythcott-Haims\u2019 story of growing up with an African-American father and a white British mother in the 1970s and early \u201980s in New York<\/a>, Wisconsin<\/a> and Virginia<\/a>. It\u2019s a series of essays that read like individual poems \u2014 some brief, some ballads \u2014 that work together to narrate her life.<\/p>\n

One goes like this:…<\/p>\n

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

Julie Lythcott-Haims has written a deeply affecting memoir about growing up biracial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,5,8,20],"tags":[2805,27668,27669,11554],"class_list":["post-55210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-heidi-stevens","tag-julie-lythcott-haims","tag-the-chicago-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55210","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=55210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55212,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55210\/revisions\/55212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}