{"id":5932,"date":"2010-03-12T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5932"},"modified":"2010-03-12T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T19:06:00","slug":"beyond-just-black-and-white-why-i-was-so-eager-to-claim-my-biracial-son-for-my-own-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5932","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Just Black and White: Why I was so eager to claim my biracial son for my own side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/181292\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond Just Black and White: Why I was so eager to claim my biracial son for my own side<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Newsweek.com<br \/>\n2009-01-24<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/33730\" target=\"_blank\">Raina Kelley<\/a><\/strong>, Weekly Columnist<\/p>\n<p>When I took my newly born son from the nurse&#8217;s arms, I did the expected counting of his fingers and toes. I checked under his cap for hair and flexed his little limbs. Once confident he was whole and healthy, I began to wonder how dark his skin would get. As a black woman married to one of the world&#8217;s fairest men, I worried that our son would be so light-skinned as to appear Caucasian, and I wanted him to look black&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/181292\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond Just Black and White: Why I was so eager to claim my biracial son for my own side Newsweek.com 2009-01-24 Raina Kelley, Weekly Columnist When I took my newly born son from the nurse&#8217;s arms, I did the expected counting of his fingers and toes. I checked under his cap for hair and flexed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,459,6,394,20],"tags":[2459,2458],"class_list":["post-5932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-history","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-newsweek","tag-raina-kelley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5932","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=5932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}