{"id":55494,"date":"2017-12-27T22:37:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T22:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55494"},"modified":"2017-12-28T01:35:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T01:35:11","slug":"at-first-we-were-brown-and-then-we-were-half-caste-and-then-mixed-race-and-then-dual-heritage-and-then-it-was-ok-to-just-be-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55494","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAt first we were brown and then we were half-caste and then mixed-race and then dual-heritage and then it was ok to just be black\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There are mixed race people on both sides of <a href=\"http:\/\/corinnebaileyrae.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Corinne] Bailey Rae\u2019s<\/a> family \u2013 she has \u201cbrown cousins\u201d on her mum\u2019s English side as well as her dad\u2019s. When she comments on her cousin\u2019s shades, it reminds me that I\u2019ve read that the term she prefers to use to describe herself is \u201cbrown\u201d too. \u201cAt first we were brown and then we were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">half-caste<\/a> and then mixed-race and then dual-heritage and then it was ok to just be black,\u201d says Bailey Rae, obviously aware of the debate around how mixed-race people should define themselves, but disparaging. \u201cI feel like I don\u2019t really have a term if I\u2019m really honest. That\u2019s why I say it [brown] in like an almost silly way. As it\u2019s almost like I\u2019ve been labelled so many different things in the past 38 years that none of them feel familiar or satisfying.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Charlie Brinkhurst Cuff, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55483\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corinne Bailey Rae on her nomadic lifestyle, racial identity and pregnancy<\/a>,\u201d <em>gal-dem<\/em>, October 16, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gal-dem.com\/corinne-bailey-rae-on-her-nomadic-lifestyle-racial-identity-and-pregnancy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.gal-dem.com\/corinne-bailey-rae-on-her-nomadic-lifestyle-racial-identity-and-pregnancy\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are mixed race people on both sides of [Corinne] Bailey Rae\u2019s family \u2013 she has \u201cbrown cousins\u201d on her mum\u2019s English side as well as her dad\u2019s. When she comments on her cousin\u2019s shades, it reminds me that I\u2019ve read that the term she prefers to use to describe herself is \u201cbrown\u201d too. \u201cAt [&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":[27902,24310,27903,2538,24052],"class_list":["post-55494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-charlie-b-cuff","tag-charlie-brinkhurst-cuff","tag-charlie-cuff","tag-corinne-bailey-rae","tag-gal-dem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55494","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=55494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55509,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55494\/revisions\/55509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}