{"id":57723,"date":"2019-02-26T21:08:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T21:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57723"},"modified":"2019-02-26T21:08:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T21:08:16","slug":"neither-of-my-parents-or-their-families-required-me-to-be-one-thing-or-another-and-they-let-me-decide-how-i-would-identify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57723","title":{"rendered":"Neither of my parents (or their families) required me to be one thing or another, and they let me decide how I would identify."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In my adolescence, I referred to myself (and my brother) as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Blaxican\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blaxican<\/a> to honor both parents, even though I did not experience the world through a black self and a Mexican self. Many of the biracial kids I grew up around tried desperately to be in two worlds but struggled with the duality. They never seemed comfortable or satisfied with trying to belong in whatever space they occupied. I could not relate. Neither of my parents (or their families) required me to be one thing or another, and they let me decide how I would identify.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Marguerite Matthews, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Tale of Two Faces<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Root<\/em>, January 31, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/verysmartbrothas.theroot.com\/a-tale-of-two-faces-1832206862\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/verysmartbrothas.theroot.com\/a-tale-of-two-faces-1832206862<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my adolescence, I referred to myself (and my brother) as blaxican to honor both parents, even though I did not experience the world through a black self and a Mexican self. Many of the biracial kids I grew up around tried desperately to be in two worlds but struggled with the duality. They never [&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":[29562,3234],"class_list":["post-57723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-marguerite-matthews","tag-the-root"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57723","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=57723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57724,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57723\/revisions\/57724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}