{"id":58627,"date":"2019-07-30T18:56:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T18:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58627"},"modified":"2019-07-30T18:56:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T18:56:33","slug":"the-biracial-identity-being-grey-in-a-black-white-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58627","title":{"rendered":"The Biracial Identity: Being Grey in a Black &#038; White America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hercampus.com\/school\/ucd\/biracial-identity-being-grey-black-white-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Biracial Identity: Being Grey in a Black &amp; White America<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hercampus.com\/school\/ucd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Her Campus at UCD<\/a><br \/>\n2018-03-05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/adrien-york-364762180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Adrien York<\/strong><\/a>, UCD Contributor<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Davis<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hercampus.com\/school\/ucd\/biracial-identity-being-grey-black-white-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.hercampus.com\/styles\/full_width_embed\/s3\/body-images\/2018\/03\/01\/IMG_3207.JPG\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><em>Image courtesy of the author<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_History_Month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black History Month<\/a> \u2014 the shortest month of the year \u2014 being over, I find myself reflecting even more than usual on my racial identity. I have a white mom and a black dad; I&#8217;m black and white, or white and black, or mixed, or whatever the heck I&#8217;m supposed to call it.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could call it grey and have people know what I mean, because being mixed paradoxically feels like being both and neither at the same time. It always feels like I&#8217;m not &#8220;black enough&#8221; or not &#8220;white enough&#8221; to be accepted by either. For a long time this was a weight on my existence, but I&#8217;ve recently come to the conclusion that being black and being white are not mutually exclusive.<\/p>\n<p>And I love living in the middle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hercampus.com\/school\/ucd\/biracial-identity-being-grey-black-white-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being biracial in America, for me, is being able to see things from two entirely different perspectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,2895,125,8,20],"tags":[30085,25184,30084],"class_list":["post-58627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-adrien-york","tag-her-campus","tag-her-campus-at-ucd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58627","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=58627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58628,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58627\/revisions\/58628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}