{"id":55817,"date":"2018-02-27T01:10:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T01:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55817"},"modified":"2019-07-23T00:06:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T00:06:37","slug":"decentering-whiteness-on-facing-the-class-privilege-that-exists-in-mixed-race-asian-communities-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55817","title":{"rendered":"DeCentering Whiteness: On Facing the Class Privilege that Exists in Mixed Race Asian Communities & Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

DeCentering Whiteness: On Facing the Class Privilege that Exists in Mixed Race Asian Communities & Beyond<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Body Is Not An Apology<\/a>
\n2018-02-15<\/p>\n

Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda<\/strong><\/a>
\nUniversity of California, Berkeley<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Growing up queer, mixed race, and Asian in the American south<\/a>, my identity often felt like an absence of any identity at all. For a long time, I existed in a kind of limbo state, not having a language to describe myself. Until my early twenties, I was unaware that the word \u201cmixed race\u201d existed, much less as a term that I had the option to identify with.<\/p>\n

Because I neither knew nor saw any other mixed race children or people around me, for a long time my sense of self was only defined as a negation: I was certainly not white, and certainly not Japanese (at least by the standards of ethnic purity that were operative within my Japanese family and community), but as to what I was, actually, no one could really say.<\/p>\n

So it was more than a breath of fresh air\u2014more like a sense of psychic and spiritual relief\u2014when I learned that such a thing as a mixed race identity existed, and that it was something I could identify as, with no other qualifications or explanations. When I finally encountered a community of other mixed race people during my twenties, I felt I was able to inhabit my body and experiences more fully and comfortably…<\/p>\n

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In so many ways, the dominant images and stories around mixed race identities in the U.S. revolve around folks who are half white, and\/or whose mixed race identity gives them a proximity to whiteness that other mixed race folks and people of color don\u2019t have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8,23674,20],"tags":[27138,28095],"class_list":["post-55817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-lisa-hofmann-kuroda","tag-the-body-is-not-an-apology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55817","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=55817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55818,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55817\/revisions\/55818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}