{"id":58554,"date":"2019-07-23T00:24:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T00:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58554"},"modified":"2019-07-23T00:24:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T00:24:13","slug":"mixed-doesnt-always-mean-part-white-uplifting-non-white-mixed-race-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58554","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Doesn\u2019t Always Mean Part White: Uplifting Non-White Mixed Race Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed Doesn\u2019t Always Mean Part White: Uplifting Non-White Mixed Race Identities<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Body Is Not An Apology<\/a>
\n2019-07-08<\/p>\n

Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda<\/strong><\/a>
\nUniversity of California, Berkeley<\/em><\/p>\n

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Growing up queer, mixed race, and Asian in the American South, my identity often felt like an absence of any identity at all. For a long time I existed in a kind of limbo state, not having a language to describe myself. Until my early twenties, I was unaware the word \u201cmixed race\u201d existed, much less as a term I had the option to identify with.<\/p>\n

Because I neither knew nor saw any other mixed race children or people around me, for a long time my sense of self was only defined as a negation: I was certainly not white, and certainly not Japanese (at least by the standards of ethnic purity operative within my Japanese family and community). But as to what I was, actually, no one could really say.<\/p>\n

So it was more than a breath of fresh air \u2014 more like a sense of psychic and spiritual relief \u2014 when I learned that such a thing as a mixed race identity existed, and that it was something I could identify as, with no other qualifications or explanations. When I finally encountered a community of other mixed race people during my twenties, I felt I was able to inhabit my body and experiences more fully and comfortably…<\/p>\n

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

As time went on, I realized that many of the conversations I was hearing about mixed race identity were implicitly about our relationship to whiteness \u2014 our anxieties about \u201cpassing\u201d or \u201cnot passing\u201d as white, how to navigate light-skinned privilege, how to navigate our relationships with white family members \u2014 and that these conversations implicitly left out mixed race folks who did not have a direct relationship to whiteness at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,125,8,20],"tags":[27138,28095],"class_list":["post-58554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-lisa-hofmann-kuroda","tag-the-body-is-not-an-apology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58554","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=58554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58555,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58554\/revisions\/58555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}