{"id":57816,"date":"2019-03-25T14:33:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T14:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57816"},"modified":"2019-03-25T14:33:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T14:33:32","slug":"dwayne-johnson-identifies-as-both-black-and-samoan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57816","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Johnson identifies as both ‘Black and Samoan’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dwayne Johnson identifies as both ‘Black and Samoan’<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

IOL News<\/a>
\n2019-03-20<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nProducer and cast member Dwayne Johnson<\/a> poses at the premiere of the film “Fighting With My Family<\/a>” during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival<\/a>, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, in Park City, Utah<\/a>. Picture: AP<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson<\/a> responded to a social media debate between fans to confirm that he identifies as both Black and Samoan.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood star and former WWE<\/a> champion responded to a social media debate between wrestling fans regarding his ethnicity and how he was portrayed on screen, with one arguing that Johnson – whose father Rocky<\/a> was Black Canadian and whose mother Ata came from a Samoan family – identified with the latter professionally…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson responded to a social media debate between fans to confirm that he identifies as both Black and Samoan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8],"tags":[29643,29644,1702,29642,29645],"class_list":["post-57816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","tag-dwayne-the-rock-johnson","tag-dwayne-douglas-johnson","tag-dwayne-johnson","tag-iol-news","tag-the-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57816","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=57816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57817,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57816\/revisions\/57817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}