{"id":57960,"date":"2019-04-20T01:12:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T01:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57960"},"modified":"2019-04-20T01:12:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T01:12:18","slug":"occupying-the-peculiar-liminal-space-between-the-fiction-of-race-and-the-realities-of-its-imposition-has-presented-me-a-strange-reality-as-a-multiracial-black-adult-of-the-african-diaspora-black-to-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57960","title":{"rendered":"Occupying the peculiar liminal space between the fiction of race and the realities of its imposition has presented me a strange reality as a multiracial Black adult of the African diaspora: Black to some, mixed race to others, generally confusing to many&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Occupying the peculiar liminal space between the fiction of race and the realities of its imposition has presented me a strange reality as a multiracial Black adult of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_diaspora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African diaspora<\/a>: Black to some, mixed race to others, generally confusing to many; white women touching my hair without permission; South Asian old ladies looking at me with suspicion; sideways looks from cops who presume I\u2019m up to no good. If you\u2019re a Black-coded mixed-race person, the cops don\u2019t care who your parents are. I identify as Black because that\u2019s how the world interacts with me. I am also mixed race. The language of halves and quarters does not serve us. We are whole, complex human beings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Daniella Barreto, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57949\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We Can\u2019t Screw Ourselves Out of Racism<\/a>,\u201d <em>Medium<\/em>, March 28, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/shareyournuance\/cant-fuck-ourselves-out-of-racism-72d91ecbe87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/medium.com\/shareyournuance\/cant-fuck-ourselves-out-of-racism-72d91ecbe87<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occupying the peculiar liminal space between the fiction of race and the realities of its imposition has presented me a strange reality as a multiracial Black adult of the African diaspora: Black to some, mixed race to others, generally confusing to many; white women touching my hair without permission; South Asian old ladies looking at [&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":[29719,29720,18537],"class_list":["post-57960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-daniella-barreto","tag-daniella-f-l-barreto","tag-medium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57960","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=57960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57961,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57960\/revisions\/57961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}