{"id":59460,"date":"2020-02-01T21:14:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T21:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59460"},"modified":"2020-02-01T21:14:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T21:14:23","slug":"am-i-black-enough-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59460","title":{"rendered":"Am I Black Enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Am I Black Enough?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

KQED.org<\/a>
\nKQED Perspectives<\/a>
\nSan Francisco, California
\n2020-01-23<\/p>\n

Valencia White<\/strong>
\nEl Cerrito, California<\/em><\/p>\n

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Picking a college isn\u2019t easy. For teens weighing their options there are a lot of factors to consider. YR Media\u2019s Valencia White says her racial identity played a big role.<\/p>\n

As a senior, the question I get asked the most is: Where do you want to go to college? My answer is always the same. I want to go to Howard University<\/a> or Spelman College<\/a>, both of which are historically Black colleges. But sometimes I ask myself, “Am I Black enough to go to an HBCU?<\/a>”<\/p>\n

I\u2019m biracial \u2014 my mom is mixed with Black and Filipino and my dad is white. In seventh grade, my parents switched me from a majority-white Catholic school to a more diverse school. I quickly realized how little diversity I had been exposed to at my old school. I was happy for once not to be the only Black kid in the class.<\/p>\n

But adjusting to a new school didn\u2019t come easily.<\/p>\n

Kids would ask me, \u201cWhy do you act so white?\u201d I felt like I had to change my personality just to be accepted. I know I\u2019m Black and that\u2019s something I\u2019ve never doubted. But when my peers constantly doubted my blackness, I started to question my identity…<\/p>\n

Read the entire story here<\/a>. Listen to the story (00:02:08) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kids would ask me, \u201cWhy do you act so white?\u201d I felt like I had to change my personality just to be accepted. I know I\u2019m Black and that\u2019s something I\u2019ve never doubted. But when my peers constantly doubted my blackness, I started to question my identity…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2850,395,2895,125,8],"tags":[13063,30705,30706,30707],"class_list":["post-59460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-audio","category-autobiography","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-kqed","tag-kqed-perspectives","tag-kqed-org","tag-valencia-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59460","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=59460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59461,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59460\/revisions\/59461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}