{"id":55571,"date":"2018-01-22T02:48:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T02:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55571"},"modified":"2018-01-22T02:48:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T02:48:10","slug":"my-resolution-for-2018-is-to-trace-the-family-who-dont-yet-know-i-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55571","title":{"rendered":"My resolution for 2018 is to trace the family who don\u2019t yet know I exist"},"content":{"rendered":"

My resolution for 2018 is to trace the family who don\u2019t yet know I exist<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2017-12-30<\/p>\n

Georgina Lawton<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Two years ago I discovered I was not related to my white father. Now, I intend to find out the origins of my blackness<\/em><\/p>\n

When it comes to setting new year\u2019s resolutions, I am not that bothered about losing weight, exercising more, or becoming more productive (although it would be good to finally get a grip on all those things). Instead, I have decided to make 2018 the year in which I make a serious, wholehearted attempt to trace a family who don\u2019t yet know I exist, and to find out once and for all, in as much detail as I can, the origins of my blackness.<\/p>\n

No one realises the difficult nature of this task more than me. As I have previously written<\/a>, I was raised by two white parents who always assured me that I was related to them both, which led me to identify as white<\/a> until I was about 15.<\/p>\n

The nadir of my life came almost two years ago, when my dad died and a subsequent DNA test<\/a> confirmed my deepest fears, which had wrapped themselves around my life like the tendrils of a poisonous plant. I was not related to my fantastic father; my mother had been unfaithful with a man she knows little about. It had never been spoken about…<\/p>\n

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

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