{"id":57827,"date":"2019-03-29T02:25:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T02:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57827"},"modified":"2019-03-29T02:25:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T02:25:44","slug":"mixed-up-racism-made-me-feel-sub-human-i-used-to-pretend-to-be-anything-but-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57827","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Up: \u2018Racism made me feel sub-human. I used to pretend to be anything but black\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed Up: \u2018Racism made me feel sub-human. I used to pretend to be anything but black\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

METRO.co.uk<\/a>
\n2019-03-20<\/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

Welcome to Mixed Up, a series that aims to elevate the under-heard narratives of mixed-race people<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

…Billie Dee Gianfrancesco<\/strong><\/a> is half white and half black Caribbean.<\/p>\n

She spent her childhood hating and denying her blackness, until a total breakdown in her mid 20s forced her to reassess her identity.<\/p>\n

\u2018My mother was born in Hackney<\/a> in London<\/a>, my grandmother was a part of the Windrush generation<\/a> and came to London from Dominica<\/a> to be an NHS<\/a> nurse,\u2019 Billie tells Metro.co.uk.<\/p>\n

\u2018We aren\u2019t sure who my grandfather is or where he came from, but DNA tests<\/a> show that he was black and that he probably came from somewhere in the Caribbean<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018My father is white Australian, and I was born in Sydney<\/a>. My parents divorced when I was five and I moved to Norfolk<\/a> in the UK<\/a> in 1998 when I was eight, with my mother, Italian-Australian step-dad, and younger sister.<\/p>\n

\u2018I spent my entire life, up until the last few years, really struggling with my identity.\u2019…<\/p>\n

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

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