{"id":58714,"date":"2019-08-20T17:35:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T17:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58714"},"modified":"2019-08-20T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T22:08:00","slug":"they-call-me-negro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58714","title":{"rendered":"They Call Me “Negro”"},"content":{"rendered":"

They Call Me “Negro”<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Embrace Race: Raising A Brave Generation<\/a>
\n2019-08-18<\/p>\n

Dr. Ruth L. Baskerville<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Picture\"<\/a>
\nEarly family photo in 1951. The author is on the bottom right.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In 1943 in Manhattan, NY<\/a>, a 46-year old African- and Native-American man who was a renowned band director and jazz composer marries a 19-year old naive European-American woman of Jewish Ukrainian descent, who wants to sing professionally. I\u2019m the second of five children.<\/p>\n

At age four, I overhear Mommy telling her Mom she won\u2019t leave Daddy and me in order to come back home with my whiter looking brother. Every year of our growing up, Mommy takes the whitest looking child to find new housing, and our unwanted family moves in the middle of the night. We\u2019re in new schools, too.<\/p>\n

There are no “Mulattos<\/a>” in our neighborhoods, and I\u2019m constantly asked, \u201cWhere are you from? I mean, what are you?\u201d<\/em> The questioners have distorted faces, uncomfortable with their ambivalence about my ethnicity. Even today, they need to fit me into a race category before they can utter their next sentence! \u201cYou\u2019re Saudi \u2013 Moroccan \u2013 Indian \u2013 Spanish \u2013 Italian – definitely foreign!\u201d<\/em> I\u2019m from New York<\/a>!…<\/p>\n

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

Every year of our growing up, Mommy takes the whitest looking child to find new housing, and our unwanted family moves in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,414,8,6462,20],"tags":[30139,30137,30136,30147,2711,596,30140,30138],"class_list":["post-58714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-family","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-dr-ruth-baskerville","tag-dr-ruth-l-baskerville","tag-embrace-race","tag-embrace-race-raising-a-brave-generation","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ruth-baskerville","tag-ruth-l-baskerville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58714","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=58714"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58732,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58714\/revisions\/58732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}