{"id":56833,"date":"2018-08-25T02:41:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T02:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56833"},"modified":"2018-08-25T02:41:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T02:41:30","slug":"i-see-myself-as-a-woman-of-color-with-light-skinned-privileges-i-hold-the-duality-as-both-a-recipient-and-an-ally-of-a-legacy-of-oppression-and-colonialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56833","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI see myself as a woman of color with light skinned privileges. I hold the duality as both a recipient and an ally of a legacy of oppression and colonialism.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cMy inclusion in general <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Person_of_color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">POC<\/a> spaces is a tricky one. While my ethnicity is very rarely discounted, the white privilege I\u2019m afforded and responsible for owning quickly screws up the POC binary, too. Other people of color can respond with a hint of caution. Some openly recognize the complexity that I am holding and accept my lens as meaningful in the POC experience. Some do not. While prejudices I\u2019ve experienced have punctured my bubble, guilt inevitably arises over how much to talk about these experiences as valid in contrast to my other advantages, especially with other people of color. I see myself as a woman of color with light skinned privileges. I hold the duality as both a recipient and an ally of a legacy of oppression and colonialism.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/therapydeva.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deva Segal<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tiffany McLain LMFT, <span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56823\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Part and Apart<\/a>,<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u201d<\/span> <em>Psychology Today<\/em>, August 21, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/intl\/blog\/living-between-worlds\/201808\/part-and-apart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/intl\/blog\/living-between-worlds\/201808\/part-and-apart<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy inclusion in general POC spaces is a tricky one. While my ethnicity is very rarely discounted, the white privilege I\u2019m afforded and responsible for owning quickly screws up the POC binary, too. Other people of color can respond with a hint of caution. Some openly recognize the complexity that I am holding and accept [&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":[28951,3532,28187],"class_list":["post-56833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-deva-segal","tag-psychology-today","tag-tiffany-mclain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56833","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=56833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56834,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56833\/revisions\/56834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}