{"id":5681,"date":"2010-03-05T22:46:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T22:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5681"},"modified":"2010-03-05T23:47:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T23:47:20","slug":"generation-mixed-breaking-the-race-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5681","title":{"rendered":"Generation Mixed: Breaking the Race Barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/issues\/america-the-remix\/generation-mixed-breaking-the-race-barrier\" target=\"_blank\">Generation Mixed: Breaking the Race Barrier<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\" target=\"_blank\">Yes! Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n2010-03-04<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adrienne Maree Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI have to be a healer&#8230; my ancestral colonizer\u2019s blood runs through my veins.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Cara Page<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve never been into identity politics. I\u2019ve long felt that people spent too much time analyzing the labels of past generations and too little time feeling part of the mystery and miracle of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure this is, in no small part, because I am biracial. My first experiences of race were of people asking me to choose a side, choose a parent. People telling me that in spite of the love, joy, and wholeness of my family, I didn\u2019t fit, or offering me unsolicited judgment about who they thought my parents must be. These people showed no interest in my actual experience.<\/p>\n<p>My parents fell in love in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\">South Carolina<\/a> in the 1970s, in a way that surprised both of them. Their experiences were poles apart\u2014poverty versus wealth, black versus white, outgoing versus shy. My mother was disowned by her family for some time after she and my father eloped, and they faced deep racism throughout their lives.<strong> But they are still in love today\u2014visible, stable, solid, sweet, dedicated love.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I spent most of my childhood in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germany\" target=\"_blank\">Germany<\/a> on military bases, as an army brat surrounded by a lot of other racially and culturally mixed kids. By the time I arrived at a Southern middle school, where the kids segregated themselves into white and black, I didn\u2019t feel beholden to any labels.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t a universal experience for mixed people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/issues\/america-the-remix\/generation-mixed-breaking-the-race-barrier\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generation Mixed: Breaking the Race Barrier Yes! Magazine 2010-03-04 Adrienne Maree Brown \u201cI have to be a healer&#8230; my ancestral colonizer\u2019s blood runs through my veins.\u201d \u2014Cara Page I\u2019ve never been into identity politics. I\u2019ve long felt that people spent too much time analyzing the labels of past generations and too little time feeling part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,6,26,394,20],"tags":[2387,2388],"class_list":["post-5681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-new-media","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-adrienne-maree-brown","tag-yes-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681","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=5681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}