{"id":56528,"date":"2018-05-30T23:29:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T23:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56528"},"modified":"2018-05-30T23:31:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T23:31:01","slug":"pondering-my-black-biracial-and-multiracial-identity-post-hurricane-maria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56528","title":{"rendered":"Pondering My Black, Biracial and Multiracial Identity Post Hurricane Maria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/multiracialmedia.com\/black-biracial-and-multiracial-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Pondering My Black, Biracial and Multiracial Identity Post Hurricane Maria<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/multiracialmedia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Multiracial Media: Voice of the Multiracial Community<\/a><br \/>\n2018-05-27<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sarahratliff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sarah Ratliff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/multiracialmedia.com\/black-biracial-and-multiracial-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11902 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/multiracialmedia.com\/stagin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Black-White-Asian-Biracial-Multiracial-or-even-Boricua-In-the-end-does-the-way-I-self-identify-even-matter-3.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/multiracialmedia.com\/stagin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Black-White-Asian-Biracial-Multiracial-or-even-Boricua-In-the-end-does-the-way-I-self-identify-even-matter-3.jpg 500w, http:\/\/multiracialmedia.com\/stagin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Black-White-Asian-Biracial-Multiracial-or-even-Boricua-In-the-end-does-the-way-I-self-identify-even-matter-3-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/multiracialmedia.com\/stagin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Black-White-Asian-Biracial-Multiracial-or-even-Boricua-In-the-end-does-the-way-I-self-identify-even-matter-3-300x300.jpg 300w\" alt=\"Biracial and Multiracial\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been writing from the Biracial and Multiracial perspective since I co-authored the book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42902\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Being Biracial: Where Our Secret Worlds Collide<\/em><\/a> in 2015. <em>Being Biracial<\/em> is an anthology of essays from either Multiracial people or parents of mixed race kids.<\/p>\n<p>In my essay I wrote about being the product of a Black and Japanese mother and a White (German, Dutch and Irish) father who were married in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City<\/a> in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote about my experiences being \u201clight, bright and clearly half White\u201d while being raised to self-identify as Black, and of course, having to explain for the elevendy millionth time why I self-identified this way. I shared moments of complete vulnerability and isolation because I grew so frustrated trying to explain that being Black isn\u2019t just about complexion but lived experiences as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/multiracialmedia.com\/black-biracial-and-multiracial-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I have to be honest. Living in Puerto Rico and Hurricane Maria changed me, and they continue to influence how I see myself and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,14646,8,20],"tags":[28732,25357,25655,2654,21191,28733],"class_list":["post-56528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-hurricane-maria","tag-multiracial-media","tag-multiracial-media-voice-of-the-multiracial-community","tag-puerto-rico","tag-sarah-ratliff","tag-sarah-sarita-ratliff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56528","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=56528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56529,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56528\/revisions\/56529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}