{"id":55232,"date":"2017-11-20T04:55:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T04:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55232"},"modified":"2017-11-20T04:55:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T04:55:46","slug":"no-doubt-i-am-mixed-but-im-mixed-and-black-blackness-can-accommodate-mixedness-in-a-way-that-whiteness-with-its-myths-of-purity-cannot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55232","title":{"rendered":"No doubt I am mixed, but I\u2019m mixed and black. Blackness can accommodate mixedness, in a way that whiteness, with its myths of purity cannot."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>No doubt I am mixed, but I\u2019m mixed and black. Blackness can accommodate mixedness, in a way that whiteness, with its myths of purity cannot. In some contexts I am black, in others mixed, sometimes I am Irish, others Nigerian (white is still off limits), but I am always me, always with the potential to identify as any of these things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Emma Dabiri, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emma: On Whether Irish Black People Are Woke, and on Changing \u201cForeign\u201d Names<\/a>,\u201d <em>Dublin Inquirer<\/em>, October 25, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dublininquirer.com\/2017\/10\/25\/emma-on-whether-irish-black-people-are-woke-and-on-changing-foreign-names\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.dublininquirer.com\/2017\/10\/25\/emma-on-whether-irish-black-people-are-woke-and-on-changing-foreign-names\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No doubt I am mixed, but I\u2019m mixed and black. Blackness can accommodate mixedness, in a way that whiteness, with its myths of purity cannot. In some contexts I am black, in others mixed, sometimes I am Irish, others Nigerian (white is still off limits), but I am always me, always with the potential 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":[27677,13842],"class_list":["post-55232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-dublin-inquirer","tag-emma-dabiri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55232","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=55232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55233,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55232\/revisions\/55233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}