{"id":55772,"date":"2018-02-20T03:52:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T03:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55772"},"modified":"2018-02-20T04:14:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T04:14:25","slug":"and-today-its-to-the-point-where-when-i-walk-into-a-place-and-people-see-or-hear-me-people-assume-im-mixed-because-mixed-identity-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55772","title":{"rendered":"And today it\u2019s to the point where when I walk into a place and people see or hear me, people assume I\u2019m mixed because mixed identity EXISTS."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think the generation after me was really the beginning of people openly embracing the idea of mixed identity. And today it\u2019s to the point where when I walk into a place and people see or hear me, people assume I\u2019m mixed because mixed identity <em>exists<\/em>. Because it didn\u2019t exist in the public consciousness in the past, people would look at me like I was this wild, mutant creature.&#8221; \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.matjohnson.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mat Johnson<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Charles Pulliam-Moore, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55766\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Incognegro: Renaissance<\/em> Author Mat Johnson Talks About Living a Black Life With Skin That Can Look White<\/a>,\u201d <em>Gizmodo<\/em>, February 12, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/incognegro-renaissance-author-mat-johnson-talks-about-1822834011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/incognegro-renaissance-author-mat-johnson-talks-about-1822834011<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I think the generation after me was really the beginning of people openly embracing the idea of mixed identity. And today it\u2019s to the point where when I walk into a place and people see or hear me, people assume I\u2019m mixed because mixed identity exists. Because it didn\u2019t exist in the public consciousness in [&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":[28059,26021,28062,2355],"class_list":["post-55772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-charles-pulliam-moore","tag-gizmodo","tag-incognegro-renaissance","tag-mat-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55772","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=55772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55778,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55772\/revisions\/55778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}