{"id":58767,"date":"2019-08-27T01:19:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T01:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58767"},"modified":"2019-08-27T01:19:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T01:19:28","slug":"mom-was-a-brown-skinned-asian-migrant-she-was-also-racist-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58767","title":{"rendered":"Mom Was a Brown-Skinned Asian Migrant. She Was Also Racist. Now What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/humanparts.medium.com\/my-mom-was-a-brown-skinned-foreign-accented-asian-immigrant-she-was-also-a-racist-now-what-90496113e971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Mom Was a Brown-Skinned Asian Migrant. She Was Also Racist. Now What?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/humanparts.medium.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Human Parts<\/a><br \/>\n2019-08-05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katerigg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kate Rigg<\/strong><\/a>, Actor, Writer, activist, futurist, culture vulture, Amerasian rebel<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/humanparts.medium.com\/my-mom-was-a-brown-skinned-foreign-accented-asian-immigrant-she-was-also-a-racist-now-what-90496113e971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ra rb gf n o ge ab gc\" src=\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/5760\/1*rmGCiVSfJuZj7EPkg_N0cw.jpeg\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>That\u2019s her on the left. She loved sunglasses. And me. And whiteness. <em>All photos taken\/owned by the author.<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>The dirty little secret of my New American family<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Both sides of my family, the white one but especially the Southeast Asian one, are going to freak when they see that title. However, since my mom went to the great Gucci outlet in the sky a few years ago, there is no one here to throw a massage sandal at my head and verbally assault me for an hour in response. And my dad barely does email, let alone read blogs, so let\u2019s continue.<\/p>\n<p>The title of my story is the great unspoken truth for many of us North Americans \u201cof color.\u201d I have heard my mom say, \u201cSend them back!\u201d in various political and casual conversations concerning various ethnic groups \u2014 including her own&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/humanparts.medium.com\/my-mom-was-a-brown-skinned-foreign-accented-asian-immigrant-she-was-also-a-racist-now-what-90496113e971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dirty little secret of my New American family<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,19,414,8,26,20],"tags":[986,16209,5480],"class_list":["post-58767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-canada","category-family","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-australia","tag-human-parts","tag-kate-rigg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58767","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=58767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58768,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58767\/revisions\/58768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}