{"id":56410,"date":"2018-05-18T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56410"},"modified":"2018-05-18T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T18:26:00","slug":"i-know-what-it-is-to-assimilate-to-a-group-you-identify-with-because-i-did-it-myself-against-my-white-mothers-wishes-she-hated-me-calling-myself-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56410","title":{"rendered":"I know what it is to assimilate to a group you identify with, because I did it myself, against my white mother\u2019s wishes. She hated me calling myself black."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For some of us, racial identity is elastic. We can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pass<\/a>. For white, for black, for Middle Eastern. For Latinx. I am one of those people. I know what it is to assimilate to a group you identify with, because I did it myself, against my white mother\u2019s wishes. She hated me calling myself black.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lisa Page, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Passing or Transracial?: Authority, Race, and Sex in the Rachel Dolezal Documentary<\/a>,\u201d <em>Beacon Broadside: A Project of Beacon Press<\/em>, May 10, 2018. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaconbroadside.com\/broadside\/2018\/05\/passing-or-transracial-authority-race-and-sex-in-the-rachel-dolezal-documentary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.beaconbroadside.com\/broadside\/2018\/05\/passing-or-transracial-authority-race-and-sex-in-the-rachel-dolezal-documentary.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some of us, racial identity is elastic. We can pass. For white, for black, for Middle Eastern. For Latinx. I am one of those people. I know what it is to assimilate to a group you identify with, because I did it myself, against my white mother\u2019s wishes. She hated me calling myself black. [&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":[6579,28644,4729],"class_list":["post-56410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-beacon-broadside","tag-beacon-broadside-a-project-of-beacon-press","tag-lisa-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56410","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=56410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56411,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56410\/revisions\/56411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}