{"id":59234,"date":"2019-11-19T01:05:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T01:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59234"},"modified":"2019-11-19T01:05:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T01:05:01","slug":"me-myself-and-my-mixed-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59234","title":{"rendered":"Me, Myself, and My Mixed Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Me, Myself, and My Mixed Identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Bull & Bear: McGill’s Student-Run News Magazine<\/a>
\nMontreal, Quebec
\n2019-10-17<\/p>\n

Alia Shaukat<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nPhoto courtesy of Regina Gonzalez<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

Content Warning: This article deals with sensitive topics such as racism, colorism<\/a>, and sexual abuse.<\/em><\/p>\n

I first encountered the world of racial fetishization during my brief stint on Tinder<\/a> last June. That low-stakes, medium-reward dating app that we all know and love seemed like the perfect place for me to explore the dating scene. It was also, as I soon discovered, the perfect place for many men to explore their potential for racism.<\/p>\n

Each morning, I would wake up to an aggressive amount of inquiring \u201cWhat\u2019s your race?\u201d texts paired with a wealth of heart-eye emojis<\/a>. This duality of violation and flattery was extremely confusing. Upon revealing my mixed ethnicity to my Tinder suitors, I would be praised for being \u201cdifferent\u201d or \u201cinteresting,\u201d and yet the only thing they knew about me was my mixed race identity. When I was younger, I would\u2019ve found the comments gratifying, simply because they indicated that someone had taken an interest in me. However, now that I am older, I\u2019ve seen that these compliments are the subtle forms in which racial fetishization manifests. It is a form of racism in which hurtful stereotypes camouflage as compliments and praise…<\/p>\n

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

Today, this hyper-sexualization and fetishization of mixed race people has unfortunately become the norm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,19],"tags":[30507,30510,240,30509,30508],"class_list":["post-59234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-canada","tag-alia-shaukat","tag-bull-bear","tag-colorism","tag-the-bull-bear","tag-the-bull-bear-mcgills-student-run-news-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59234","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=59234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59236,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59234\/revisions\/59236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}