{"id":56408,"date":"2018-05-18T18:20:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T18:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56408"},"modified":"2018-05-18T18:20:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T18:20:14","slug":"i-am-the-rashida-jones-version-of-biracial-i-have-white-skin-and-dark-brown-wavy-hair-people-always-assume-im-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56408","title":{"rendered":"I am the \u201cRashida Jones\u201d version of biracial. I have white skin and dark brown, wavy hair \u2014 people always assume I\u2019m white."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I am the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rashida_Jones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rashida Jones<\/a>\u201d version of biracial. I have white skin and dark brown, wavy hair \u2014 people always assume I\u2019m white. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mariah_Carey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mariah Carey<\/a>, who has a white mother and a black, Venezuelan father, was the only white-looking biracial person I knew of growing up. She was the biracial role model I needed, and I often thought of her when I struggled with the constant denial and questioning I faced whenever I told someone I was part black.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sarah E. Gaither, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56390\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I study biracial identity in America. Here\u2019s why Meghan Markle is a big deal.<\/a>\u201d <em>Vox<\/em>, May 18, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/first-person\/2018\/5\/14\/17345162\/meghan-markle-royal-wedding-2018-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/first-person\/2018\/5\/14\/17345162\/meghan-markle-royal-wedding-2018-race<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am the \u201cRashida Jones\u201d version of biracial. I have white skin and dark brown, wavy hair \u2014 people always assume I\u2019m white. Mariah Carey, who has a white mother and a black, Venezuelan father, was the only white-looking biracial person I knew of growing up. She was the biracial role model I needed, and [&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":[113,5468,11816,9692,18116],"class_list":["post-56408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-mariah-carey","tag-rashida-jones","tag-sarah-e-gaither","tag-sarah-gaither","tag-vox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56408","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=56408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56409,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56408\/revisions\/56409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}