{"id":56392,"date":"2018-05-14T20:40:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T20:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56392"},"modified":"2018-05-14T20:40:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T20:40:41","slug":"i-definitely-want-to-reach-people-who-not-only-are-of-mixed-ethnicity-but-who-also-identify-as-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56392","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI definitely want to reach people who not only are of mixed ethnicity but who also identify as Black.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWe always hear people say there are no Black people in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vancouver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vancouver<\/a>, but there are. I identify as a Black woman. I know there was a larger Black community in Vancouver many years ago, but people have been displaced. I definitely want to reach people who not only are of mixed ethnicity but who also identify as Black.<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m writing this for the community that I wish were here now. So whether you are Black, of mixed race or can identify with the trauma parts of the book, I think there are different layers in the work where you can see something different every time. That\u2019s what I like with the hybrid form, of poetry and prose.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/cheleneknight.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelene Knight<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ryan B. Patrick, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Chelene Knight wrote letters to the current occupants of the houses she lived in growing up<\/a>,\u201d <em>CBC Books<\/em>, March 6, 2018. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/books\/why-chelene-knight-wrote-letters-to-the-current-occupants-of-the-houses-she-lived-in-growing-up-1.4533897\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/books\/why-chelene-knight-wrote-letters-to-the-current-occupants-of-the-houses-she-lived-in-growing-up-1.4533897<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe always hear people say there are no Black people in Vancouver, but there are. I identify as a Black woman. I know there was a larger Black community in Vancouver many years ago, but people have been displaced. I definitely want to reach people who not only are of mixed ethnicity but who also [&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":[2138,21842,13560,9837,22979,28623,6790],"class_list":["post-56392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-british-columbia","tag-canadian-broadcasting-corporation","tag-cbc","tag-cbc-books","tag-chelene-knight","tag-ryan-b-patrick","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56392","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=56392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56393,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56392\/revisions\/56393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}