{"id":55387,"date":"2017-12-05T22:24:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T22:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55387"},"modified":"2017-12-05T22:25:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T22:25:24","slug":"y-phone-im-white-british-and-middle-class-a-londoner-maybe-definitely-educated-and-probably-called-oliver-an-accent-they-cant-place-on-a-black-baritone-that-blends-with-feminine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55387","title":{"rendered":"By phone I\u2019m white, British and middle class. A Londoner maybe. Definitely educated and probably called Oliver. An accent they can\u2019t place on a black baritone that blends with feminine cadences. Physically, I\u2019m often mistaken for half-Asian&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>By phone I\u2019m white, British and middle class. A Londoner maybe. Definitely educated and probably called Oliver. An accent they can\u2019t place on a black baritone that blends with feminine cadences. Physically, I\u2019m often mistaken for half-Asian. Occasionally when my broad shoulders, thick thighs and big belly are accounted for, the answer is Samoan. But my beard suggests I have a relationship with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quran<\/a>, certainly when it comes to airports in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southend-on-Sea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southend<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stockholm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stockholm<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So I feel the double-take when people meet me for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh!\u201d they will say. \u201cI had no idea you were\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Gay?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ashley Thomas, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55377\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Life in The Hinterlands; Growing up Gay &amp; Mixed Race on The Isle of White<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Afropean: Adventures in Afro Europe<\/em>, May 9, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/afropean.com\/life-in-the-hinterlands-growing-up-gay-mixed-race-in-the-isle-of-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/afropean.com\/life-in-the-hinterlands-growing-up-gay-mixed-race-in-the-isle-of-white\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By phone I\u2019m white, British and middle class. A Londoner maybe. Definitely educated and probably called Oliver. An accent they can\u2019t place on a black baritone that blends with feminine cadences. Physically, I\u2019m often mistaken for half-Asian. Occasionally when my broad shoulders, thick thighs and big belly are accounted for, the answer is Samoan. But [&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":[17846,25219,27834,27833],"class_list":["post-55387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-afropean","tag-ashley-thomas","tag-the-afropean","tag-the-afropean-adventures-in-afro-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55387","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=55387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55389,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55387\/revisions\/55389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}