{"id":56238,"date":"2018-04-22T20:48:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T20:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56238"},"modified":"2018-04-22T20:48:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T20:48:31","slug":"you-dont-look-black-how-im-talking-to-my-kids-about-being-mixed-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56238","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You Don\u2019t Look Black\u2019: How I\u2019m Talking to My Kids About Being Mixed Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018You Don\u2019t Look Black\u2019: How I\u2019m Talking to My Kids About Being Mixed Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

CBC Parents<\/a>
\nCanadian Broadcasting Corporation<\/a>
\n2018-03-15<\/p>\n

Kara Stewart-Agostino<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nPhoto by @criene\/Twenty20<\/small><\/p>\n

\u201cMama, am I black or white?\u201d This was the question I received one night before bed when my son was in grade 1. A boy in his class had been called the N-word at school and he was full of questions.<\/p>\n

He wanted to know what it meant and if someone could call him that. Some of the kids had insisted that he is black because (to their eyes) I am black. Others insisted that he\u2019s not because he doesn\u2019t “look black.”<\/p>\n

Although the kids on the school yard perceive me as black, I am the child of a Jamaican born mother and a Scottish\/Irish-Canadian born father who met in Winnipeg<\/a> in the 1970s. As a mixed child, questions of racial identity are not new to me. I think of my kids as second generation mixed Canadians \u2014 the cultures of their grandparents are layered and entwined. Their skin is fair enough that they could “pass as white<\/a>” but both have a head full of curls and tan to a golden brown in the summer sun. Meanwhile their Italian-Canadian born father will burn on a partly cloudy June day…<\/p>\n

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

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