{"id":57022,"date":"2018-11-13T03:33:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T03:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57022"},"modified":"2018-11-13T03:33:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T03:33:14","slug":"as-a-half-white-half-asian-woman-i-find-myself-viewed-by-my-white-surroundings-as-a-safe-and-relatable-personification-of-their-orientalist-fascinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57022","title":{"rendered":"As a half-white, half-Asian woman I find myself viewed by my white surroundings as a safe and relatable personification of their orientalist fascinations."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As a half-white, half-Asian woman I find myself viewed by my white surroundings as a safe and relatable personification of their orientalist fascinations. I theorize that this <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/intercalary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">intercalary<\/a> role is a convenient tool for white people to mask racial tensions and guilt. By exhibiting acceptance to people of color who embody whiteness, such as in the <a href=\"https:\/\/adage.com\/article\/cmo-strategy\/heineken-light-s-lighter-ad-mistake\/312887\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201clighter is better\u201d advertisement<\/a>, in the model immigrant trope, as assumed interracial mediators to white people, and as westernized exotic sexual fantasies, white society attempts to maintain its dominance while exhibiting an image of tolerance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sophie Buzak-Achiam, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stop using mixed race people as symbols of interracial unity to ease your white guilt<\/a>,\u201d <em>Friktion<\/em>, May 9, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/friktionmagasin.dk\/stop-using-mixed-race-people-as-symbols-of-interracial-unity-to-ease-your-white-guilt-997208eb420b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/friktionmagasin.dk\/stop-using-mixed-race-people-as-symbols-of-interracial-unity-to-ease-your-white-guilt-997208eb420b<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a half-white, half-Asian woman I find myself viewed by my white surroundings as a safe and relatable personification of their orientalist fascinations. I theorize that this intercalary role is a convenient tool for white people to mask racial tensions and guilt. By exhibiting acceptance to people of color who embody whiteness, such as in [&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":[25314,29074],"class_list":["post-57022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-friktion","tag-sophie-buzak-achiam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57022","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=57022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57023,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57022\/revisions\/57023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}