{"id":59062,"date":"2019-10-18T19:56:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59062"},"modified":"2019-10-19T02:15:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T02:15:54","slug":"piya-chattopadhyay-reflects-on-the-privilege-of-racial-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59062","title":{"rendered":"Piya Chattopadhyay reflects on the privilege of racial passing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Piya Chattopadhyay reflects on the privilege of racial passing<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

CBC Radio<\/a>
\n2019-09-20<\/p>\n

Piya Chattopadhyay<\/strong><\/a>, Host
\nOut in the Open<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nPiya Chattopadhyay’s daughter and twin sons (Submitted by Piya Chattopadhyay)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

‘I spend a lot of time looking at my children and wondering to myself what their skin tone means in 2019’<\/p>\n

My daughter Jasmine has light brown hair and hazel eyes.<\/p>\n

My son Niko’s hair is even lighter, but his eyes are dark brown.<\/p>\n

Same goes for my other son Julian (which makes sense, since they’re identical twins).<\/p>\n

They’re all tall and lean. And they’re all fair-skinned, the kind that no amount of sunscreen seems to stave off a sunburn.<\/p>\n

By appearance, they take after their father and his lineage.<\/p>\n

So I’m forgiving when people say, “They don’t look like you at all<\/em>,” but a little less forgiving when people confuse me for their nanny…<\/p>\n

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

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