{"id":56524,"date":"2018-05-30T02:56:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T02:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56524"},"modified":"2018-05-30T02:56:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T02:56:06","slug":"in-one-of-the-most-touching-of-many-personal-passages-in-the-book-akala-retraces-the-steps-by-which-he-was-racialised-as-a-mixed-race-child-into-blackness-and-by-which-he-realise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56524","title":{"rendered":"In one of the most touching of many personal passages in the book, Akala retraces the steps by which he was racialised \u2013 as a mixed-race child \u2013 into blackness, and by which he realised that his mother, who fiercely protected her children\u2019s pride in their heritage, enrolling them among other things in a Pan-African Saturday school, was racialised as white."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Natives<\/em><\/a> delivers the answers, and some of them are hard to hear. In one of the most touching of many personal passages in the book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akalamusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Akala<\/a> retraces the steps by which he was racialised \u2013 as a mixed-race child \u2013 into blackness, and by which he realised that his mother, who fiercely protected her children\u2019s pride in their heritage, enrolling them among other things in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nabss.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pan-African Saturday school<\/a>, was racialised as white.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Afua Hirsch, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56493\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire<\/em> by Akala \u2013 review<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Guardian<\/em>, May 20, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/may\/20\/natives-akala-review-destroying-myths-of-race-afia-hirsch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/may\/20\/natives-akala-review-destroying-myths-of-race-afia-hirsch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natives delivers the answers, and some of them are hard to hear. In one of the most touching of many personal passages in the book, Akala retraces the steps by which he was racialised \u2013 as a mixed-race child \u2013 into blackness, and by which he realised that his mother, who fiercely protected her children\u2019s [&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":[11657,15319,24532,22954,2103],"class_list":["post-56524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-afua-hirsch","tag-akala","tag-kingslee-daley","tag-kingslee-james-daley","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56524","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=56524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56525,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56524\/revisions\/56525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}