{"id":56316,"date":"2018-04-26T02:40:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T02:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56316"},"modified":"2018-04-26T02:40:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T02:40:18","slug":"amongst-all-of-the-women-who-could-be-identified-as-black-there-exists-such-a-huge-diversity-of-features-and-appearances-that-it-is-hard-to-talk-about-what-a-black-woman-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56316","title":{"rendered":"Amongst all of the women who could be identified as black, there exists such a huge diversity of features and appearances that it is hard to talk about what a \u201cblack woman\u201d looks like in any meaningful way, yet you reduce us to a monolith?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>What is it about black girls that you find so attractive? We come in all different shades and sizes. Amongst all of the women who could be identified as black, there exists such a huge diversity of features and appearances that it is hard to talk about what a \u201cblack woman\u201d looks like in any meaningful way, yet you reduce us to a monolith?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Emma Dabiri, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emma: On What It Means to Be \u201cAttracted to Black Girls\u201d<\/a>,\u201d <em>Dublin InQuirer<\/em>, April 24, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dublininquirer.com\/2018\/04\/24\/emma-on-what-it-means-to-be-attracted-to-black-girls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.dublininquirer.com\/2018\/04\/24\/emma-on-what-it-means-to-be-attracted-to-black-girls<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about black girls that you find so attractive? We come in all different shades and sizes. Amongst all of the women who could be identified as black, there exists such a huge diversity of features and appearances that it is hard to talk about what a \u201cblack woman\u201d looks like in any [&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":[27677,13842],"class_list":["post-56316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-dublin-inquirer","tag-emma-dabiri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56316","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=56316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56317,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56316\/revisions\/56317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}