{"id":59690,"date":"2020-06-06T02:41:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T02:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59690"},"modified":"2021-05-25T01:27:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T01:27:41","slug":"swirl-girl-coming-of-race-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59690","title":{"rendered":"Swirl Girl: Coming of Race in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alchemymediapublishing.co\/shop\/swirl-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Swirl Girl: Coming of Race in the USA<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alchemymediapublishing.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alchemy Media Publishing Company<\/a><br \/>\n2020-04-01<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN-13: 978-0998930053<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/taressastovall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>TaRessa Stovall<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alchemymediapublishing.co\/shop\/swirl-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alchemymediapublishing.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/TSbannerbookmock2.png?fit=1800%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"550\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Swirl Girl: Coming of Race in the USA<\/em> reveals how a hard-headed Mixed-race \u201cBlack Power Flower Child\u201d battles society\u2014and sometimes her closest loved ones\u2014to forge her identity on her own terms.<\/p>\n<p>As the USA undergoes its own racial growing pains, from the 1968 riots after Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s assassination<\/a>, to the historic 2008 election of the nation\u2019s first Biracially Black president, TaRessa Stovall challenges popular stereotypes and fights nonstop pressures to contort, disguise, or deny her uncomfortable truths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swirl Girl: Coming of Race in the USA Alchemy Media Publishing Company 2020-04-01 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0998930053 TaRessa Stovall Swirl Girl: Coming of Race in the USA reveals how a hard-headed Mixed-race \u201cBlack Power Flower Child\u201d battles society\u2014and sometimes her closest loved ones\u2014to forge her identity on her own terms. As the USA undergoes its own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,17,20],"tags":[30861,23102],"class_list":["post-59690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-alchemy-media-publishing-company","tag-taressa-stovall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59690","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=59690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60817,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59690\/revisions\/60817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}