{"id":56939,"date":"2018-10-15T00:40:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T00:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56939"},"modified":"2019-02-02T02:20:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T02:20:02","slug":"as-a-mixed-child-of-a-latin-american-couple-i-could-be-seen-as-socially-undetermined-part-of-a-mestizo-mulato-muddle-yet-embraced-as-part-of-a-puerto-rican-national-identity-but-in-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56939","title":{"rendered":"As a mixed child of a Latin American couple, I could be seen as socially undetermined \u2014 part of a mestizo\/mulato muddle, yet embraced as part of a Puerto Rican national identity. But in the United States, my fate has been to be inexorably drawn to the identity of my darker parent."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As a mixed child of a Latin American couple, I could be seen as socially undetermined \u2014 part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mestizo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mestizo<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mulato<\/a> muddle, yet embraced as part of a Puerto Rican national identity. But in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a>, my fate has been to be inexorably drawn to the identity of my darker parent. Like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pedro_Pietri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pedro Pietri<\/a> penning the <a href=\"https:\/\/msu.edu\/user\/sullivan\/PietriPoemObit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obituary of the passive Puerto Rican<\/a>, I accept and cherish that embrace, but hope to end the silence of the dear negro in me. It\u2019s time to let go, and embrace the blackness at the core of my being that I\u2019ve always known.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ed Morales, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Mi negro\u2019: Embracing my blackness as a Puerto Rican man<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, September 14, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2018\/09\/14\/mi-negro-embracing-my-blackness-as-a-puerto-rican-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2018\/09\/14\/mi-negro-embracing-my-blackness-as-a-puerto-rican-man<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a mixed child of a Latin American couple, I could be seen as socially undetermined \u2014 part of a mestizo\/mulato muddle, yet embraced as part of a Puerto Rican national identity. But in the United States, my fate has been to be inexorably drawn to the identity of my darker parent. Like Pedro Pietri [&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":[9107,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-56939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-ed-morales","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56939","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=56939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57443,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56939\/revisions\/57443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}