{"id":59732,"date":"2020-06-15T01:54:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T01:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59732"},"modified":"2020-06-15T01:54:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T01:54:44","slug":"my-family-was-thoroughly-racialized-long-before-we-moved-out-of-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59732","title":{"rendered":"My family was thoroughly racialized long before we moved out of Puerto Rico."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>My family was thoroughly racialized long before we moved out of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puerto_Rico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Puerto Rico<\/a>. I suppose when one grows up in a Black family designated as such by history, economics, society, and experiences of racism, along with the embodied trauma it produces, as much as by one\u2019s cultural practices, one is likely, in the context of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archipelago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archipelago<\/a>, to also thoroughly understand that: 1. being evidently Black is a disadvantage; 2. that being mixed-race while publicly aspiring to be white is acceptable; and 3. being light-skin and\/or white means privilege and access.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hilda Llor\u00e9ns, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59703\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Racialization works differently here in Puerto Rico, do not bring your U.S.-centric ideas about race here!\u2019<\/a>,\u201d <em>Black Perspectives<\/em>, March 3, 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaihs.org\/racialization-works-differently-here-in-puerto-rico-do-not-bring-your-u-s-centric-ideas-about-race-here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.aaihs.org\/racialization-works-differently-here-in-puerto-rico-do-not-bring-your-u-s-centric-ideas-about-race-here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My family was thoroughly racialized long before we moved out of Puerto Rico. I suppose when one grows up in a Black family designated as such by history, economics, society, and experiences of racism, along with the embodied trauma it produces, as much as by one\u2019s cultural practices, one is likely, in the context of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26485,30871,2654],"class_list":["post-59732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-black-perspectives","tag-hilda-llorens","tag-puerto-rico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59732","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=59732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59733,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59732\/revisions\/59733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}