{"id":59686,"date":"2020-06-06T02:21:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T02:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59686"},"modified":"2020-06-06T02:21:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T02:21:26","slug":"im-a-black-and-jewish-woman-my-identity-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59686","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m a Black and Jewish Woman. My Identity Matters."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kveller.com\/im-a-black-and-jewish-woman-my-identity-matters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>I\u2019m a Black and Jewish Woman. My Identity Matters.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kveller.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kveller<\/a><br \/>\n2020-06-04<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/faith.gabbaykalson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Faith Gabbay-Kalson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kveller.com\/im-a-black-and-jewish-woman-my-identity-matters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kveller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/identity3-1200x800.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>What<\/em> are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I have been asked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kveller.com\/what-not-to-say-to-jews-of-color-and-what-to-say-instead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this question<\/a> on way too many occasions: in private, in public, by strangers, by people I was acquainted with, and by many who should have known better. Singled out, put on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>What am I? Hmm\u2026 I\u2019m a woman, a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, a friend, a lover of beautiful things, a designer, the list goes on. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kveller.com\/muslim-4th-grader-writes-letter-to-trump-arent-we-all-human\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I\u2019m human<\/a> \u2014 at least that\u2019s what I so naively assumed. Our single race has been divided up into category upon subcategory, and this world forces you into just a single, specific, and limiting box.<\/p>\n<p>But what does one do when you sit on the fence between two vast divides?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m the daughter of a Jewish (white) mother and a Guyanese (Black) father. My story was split from the very start. However, it really is so much more complex than that. I was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kveller.com\/9-surprising-women-who-are-or-were-raised-orthodox-jewish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raised Jewish<\/a>, running the gamut from Reform\/Conservative all the way through to sectors of ultra-Orthodoxy. My story has evolved along the way. One thing remained constant, though: more boxes, more labels, not all of them choices&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kveller.com\/im-a-black-and-jewish-woman-my-identity-matters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a Black and Jewish Woman. My Identity Matters. Kveller 2020-06-04 Faith Gabbay-Kalson \u201cWhat are you?\u201d I have been asked this question on way too many occasions: in private, in public, by strangers, by people I was acquainted with, and by many who should have known better. Singled out, put on the spot. What am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,125,3601,8,820],"tags":[30860,23053],"class_list":["post-59686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-identitydevelopment","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","tag-faith-gabbay-kalson","tag-kveller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59686","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=59686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59688,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59686\/revisions\/59688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}