{"id":57104,"date":"2018-12-03T01:03:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T01:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57104"},"modified":"2018-12-03T01:03:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T01:03:35","slug":"a-family-tree-with-roots-deep-in-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57104","title":{"rendered":"A Family Tree With Roots Deep In Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Family Tree With Roots Deep In Slavery<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Code Switch: Race and identity, remixed<\/a>
\nNational Public Radio<\/a>
\n2018-11-21<\/p>\n

Nabil Ayers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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“Well hello there Nabil!<\/em><\/p>\n

“I welcome your letter.<\/em>
\n…<\/em><\/p>\n

“So in the little bit of information you shared with me, I am intrigued.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I have worked for a number of years, 26 in fact, on my genealogy. It has been a passion and at times an obsession.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In her initial email to me, Karen surprised me with her excitement and candor \u2014 neither of which I was expecting from the woman whom I had gently accused of being the descendant of the man who owned my ancestors…<\/p>\n

…My mother, who is white, chose to have me and raise me on her own. My father is black, but because he has never been part of my life, I’ve never held a strong black identity or felt I belonged to any single race. I grew up in very diverse and liberal surroundings where, if anyone asked, I was racially mixed, and that was fine.<\/p>\n

I’m often asked the question, “What are you?” Or the less invasive, but still pointed, “Where are you from?” I’ve always described myself as “half black and half white.” It’s a phrase I still use for simplicity…<\/p>\n

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In her initial email to me, Karen surprised me with her excitement and candor \u2014 neither of which I was expecting from the woman whom I had gently accused of being the descendant of the man who owned my ancestors…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,2039,459,8,6940,20],"tags":[14788,27592,2309,2833],"class_list":["post-57104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-code-switch","tag-nabil-ayers","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57104","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=57104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57105,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57104\/revisions\/57105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}