{"id":57825,"date":"2019-03-29T02:09:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T02:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57825"},"modified":"2019-03-29T02:09:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T02:09:49","slug":"mixed-up-i-have-been-accepted-by-black-people-and-distanced-by-white-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57825","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Up: \u2018I have been accepted by black people and distanced by white people\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed Up: \u2018I have been accepted by black people and distanced by white people\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

METRO.co.uk<\/a>
\n2019-03-13<\/p>\n

Natalie Morris<\/strong><\/a>, Senior lifestyle Writer<\/p>\n

<\/a>
\n(Picture by Jerry Syder for Metro.co.uk<\/em>)<\/small><\/p>\n

…Elliott Reid<\/strong><\/a> is an osteopath<\/a> with English and Jamaican heritage. He doesn\u2019t believe in the concept of race \u2013 he sees it as nothing more than a social construct.<\/p>\n

\u2018Specifically, I descend from the Maroons<\/a>, the freedom fighters of Jamaica<\/a> who resided in the eastern mountains of the island,\u2019 explains Elliott.<\/p>\n

\u2018My family names are chiselled into the Emancipation War Monument in Sam Sharpe Square<\/a> in Montego bay<\/a>; a monument to all those who fought in the greatest fight for freedom in the British Caribbean<\/a>, as 60,000 Africans fought the English on Christmas Day, 1831<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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

Despite not believing in the science of race, the daily effects of being perceived as \u2018other\u2019 in the UK have been inescapable for Elliott. But he doesn\u2019t view the racist incidences he has experienced as symptomatic of being mixed, he sees them entirely through the prism of blackness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,125,8,10],"tags":[29656,28887,28161,27733],"class_list":["post-57825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-elliott-reid","tag-metro-co-uk","tag-metrouk","tag-natalie-morris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57825","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=57825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57826,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57825\/revisions\/57826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}