{"id":55289,"date":"2017-11-28T04:41:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T04:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55289"},"modified":"2017-11-28T04:41:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T04:41:46","slug":"how-my-mothers-fanatical-views-tore-us-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55289","title":{"rendered":"How my mother’s fanatical views tore us apart"},"content":{"rendered":"

How my mother’s fanatical views tore us apart<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Daily Mail<\/a>
\n2008-05-23<\/p>\n

Rebecca Walker<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nMaternal rift: Rebecca Walker<\/a>, whose mother was the feminist author of The Color Purple<\/em><\/a> – who thought motherhood a form of servitude, is now proud to be a mother herself<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

She’s revered as a trail-blazing feminist and author Alice Walker<\/a> touched the lives of a generation of women. A champion of women’s rights, she has always argued that motherhood is a form of servitude. But one woman didn’t buy in to Alice’s beliefs – her daughter, Rebecca<\/a>, 38.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here the writer describes what it was like to grow up as the daughter of a cultural icon, and why she feels so blessed to be the sort of woman 64-year-old Alice despises – a mother.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Here the writer describes what it was like to grow up as the daughter of a cultural icon, and why she feels so blessed to be the sort of woman 64-year-old Alice despises – a mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,414,8,20,25],"tags":[717,9810,362,3050],"class_list":["post-55289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-family","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-alice-walker","tag-daily-mail","tag-rebecca-walker","tag-the-daily-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55289","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=55289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55290,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55289\/revisions\/55290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}