{"id":55329,"date":"2017-12-03T22:06:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T22:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55329"},"modified":"2017-12-03T22:06:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T22:06:13","slug":"being-irish-mixed-race-and-living-abroad-its-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55329","title":{"rendered":"Being Irish, mixed race and living abroad: it&#8217;s complicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/abroad\/being-irish-mixed-race-and-living-abroad-it-s-complicated-1.3311322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Being Irish, mixed race and living abroad: it&#8217;s complicated<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Irish Times<\/a><br \/>\n2017-12-01<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conrad Bryan<\/strong>, Treasurer<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishinbritain.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Irish in Britain<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/abroad\/being-irish-mixed-race-and-living-abroad-it-s-complicated-1.3311322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.3311321.1512064353!\/image\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/box_620_330\/image.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>A scene from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcolatheatre.com\/event\/hashtag-lightie-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Hashtag Lightie<\/em><\/a>, playing at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcolatheatre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arcola Theatre<\/a> in north <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a>.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>London play \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcolatheatre.com\/event\/hashtag-lightie-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hashtag Lightie<\/a>\u2019 puts the spotlight on mixed-race identity<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I live in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a>, a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities. It is a place where anything goes and where people of different ethnicities have always mixed, loved and married.<\/p>\n<p>However, today the binary black and white notion of race is being challenged by the younger generation. They are choosing for themselves where they sit on the colour spectrum and how they self-identify. No longer will they accept other people labelling them.<\/p>\n<p>Many are choosing to self-identify as mixed-race rather than black, which is causing a real debate in the black community here. This has many consequences for individuals struggling to determine where they fit in society, or what side to take&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/abroad\/being-irish-mixed-race-and-living-abroad-it-s-complicated-1.3311322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London play &#8216;Hashtag Lightie&#8217; puts the spotlight on mixed-race identity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,125,1196,8,10],"tags":[26158,27752,16528,850,26154,16526],"class_list":["post-55329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-identitydevelopment","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-hashtag-lightie","tag-conrad-bryan","tag-irish-times","tag-london","tag-lynette-linton","tag-the-irish-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55329","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=55329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55330,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55329\/revisions\/55330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}