{"id":59089,"date":"2019-10-23T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T01:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59089"},"modified":"2019-10-23T01:03:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T01:03:41","slug":"column-lightskin-privilege-and-its-place-in-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59089","title":{"rendered":"Column: Lightskin privilege and its place in activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytarheel.com\/article\/2019\/04\/lightskin-privilege-and-activism0411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Column: Lightskin privilege and its place in activism<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytarheel.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Tar Heel<\/a><br \/>\nChapel Hill, North Carolina<br \/>\n2019-04-14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/devonj12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Devon Johnson<\/strong><\/a>, Chief Opinion Editor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytarheel.com\/article\/2019\/04\/lightskin-privilege-and-activism0411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/snworksceo.imgix.net\/dth\/82cea38b-bc02-4772-a10f-905e2cf87c98.sized-1000x1000.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"Column: Lightskin privilege and its place in activism\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After reading a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytarheel.com\/article\/2019\/04\/letter-to-the-editor-biracial-0407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter to the editor<\/a> this week questioning the place of biracial students in campus activism, I thought it was an important question that deserved to be expanded upon and hopefully answered to some degree. So I&#8217;ve reflected on my race, specifically how my race is perceived by others and how, if at all, it impacts the ways in which I form my racial identity.<\/p>\n<p>The first time I distinctly remember my biracial identity being affirmed was, perhaps unsurprisingly, in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drake_(musician)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drake\u2019s<\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q5bhOvEedgo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You &amp; The 6<\/a>.&#8221; \u201cI used to get teased for being Black, and now I&#8217;m here and I&#8217;m not Black enough.\u201d This line summed up the in-betweenness I had felt for most of my life; the tugging from either side of the aisle by those trying to have me racialize and categorize myself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytarheel.com\/article\/2019\/04\/lightskin-privilege-and-activism0411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve reflected on my race, specifically how my race is perceived by others and how, if at all, it impacts the ways in which I form my racial identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,125,8,23674,20],"tags":[240,12577,30404,12576],"class_list":["post-59089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-colorism","tag-daily-tar-heel","tag-devon-johnson","tag-the-daily-tar-heel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59089","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=59089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59092,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59089\/revisions\/59092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}