{"id":59149,"date":"2019-10-27T16:28:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T16:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59149"},"modified":"2019-10-27T16:28:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T16:28:53","slug":"identity-angst-is-a-luxury-of-the-privileged-and-i-was-privileged-and-i-was-am-angst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59149","title":{"rendered":"Identity angst is a luxury of the privileged. And I was privileged. And I was\/am angst."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Identity angst is a luxury of the privileged. And I was privileged. And I was\/am angst. The fact that I have time space and a vocabulary to tease out my own relationship to race and <em>represent Asian<\/em>, and to lobby for more gender equity or fight for diversity in Western media and culture, means that I am already living my mother\u2019s American dream. It wouldn\u2019t look like that to her. Nope. She used to sigh and roll her eyes when I did shows like \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YPzqnGYSt_I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birth of a nASIAN<\/a>\u201d at the Smithsonian about Asian American identities. She was furious when I got into Juilliard because it meant I was not going to morph into a blonde doctor by sheer force of her will. And she would still be mad today that I am not pursuing her dream of passing as one of the Real Housewives of Assimilation Hills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kate Rigg, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My Asian Mom bought me a Blonde Wig.<\/a>\u201d <em>Medium<\/em>, October 25, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@katerigg\/my-asian-mom-bought-me-a-blonde-wig-6158df9c7a3a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/medium.com\/@katerigg\/my-asian-mom-bought-me-a-blonde-wig-6158df9c7a3a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identity angst is a luxury of the privileged. And I was privileged. And I was\/am angst. The fact that I have time space and a vocabulary to tease out my own relationship to race and represent Asian, and to lobby for more gender equity or fight for diversity in Western media and culture, means that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5480,18537],"class_list":["post-59149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-kate-rigg","tag-medium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59149","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=59149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59150,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59149\/revisions\/59150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}