{"id":57294,"date":"2019-01-19T00:08:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T00:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57294"},"modified":"2019-01-19T00:08:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T00:08:56","slug":"mixed-race-half-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57294","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Race, Half Enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@kris10simmons\/mixed-race-half-enough-929a9f37c2fa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Mixed Race, Half Enough?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medium<\/a><br \/>\n2019-01-15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kristensimmonsbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kristen Simmons<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"300\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@kris10simmons\/mixed-race-half-enough-929a9f37c2fa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"progressiveMedia-image js-progressiveMedia-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-images-1.medium.com\/max\/1656\/0*VM2LKDVrHm3zhzsN\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn-images-1.medium.com\/max\/1656\/0*VM2LKDVrHm3zhzsN\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@thomashafeneth_sink?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Hafeneth<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Unsplash<\/em><\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Hi.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m Kristen. I\u2019m a mixed-race author who writes books with mixed-race characters. Yes, I know my last name is Simmons and doesn\u2019t sound very Japanese. Yes, I know Kristen doesn\u2019t either. Yes, I even know that while many people have called me everything from \u201ctan\u201d to \u201cexotic,\u201d I don\u2019t look \u201cvery Japanese.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But guess what? I am.<\/p>\n<p>All my life, this has been something I\u2019ve encountered. People would ask my father when I was alone with him in public if I was really his daughter because we didn\u2019t look alike. (For the record, he\u2019s Caucasian.) Then, when I first started telling people I was Japanese, the questions turned to, \u201cBut not completely Japanese, right?\u201d Because to them, I wasn\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@kris10simmons\/mixed-race-half-enough-929a9f37c2fa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an American, just like you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,8,20],"tags":[29259,18537],"class_list":["post-57294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-kristen-simmons","tag-medium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57294","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=57294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57295,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57294\/revisions\/57295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}