{"id":59950,"date":"2020-07-17T14:04:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T14:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59950"},"modified":"2020-07-17T14:05:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T14:05:57","slug":"what-its-like-to-be-biracial-and-arguing-with-your-white-family-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59950","title":{"rendered":"What It’s Like To Be Biracial And Arguing With Your White Family Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

What It’s Like To Be Biracial And Arguing With Your White Family Right Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Huffington Post<\/a>
\n2020-07-13<\/p>\n

Brittany Wong<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>
\nKLAUS VEDFELT VIA GETTY IMAGES<\/em>
\nWhen you\u2019ve been vulnerable with your white relatives and shared your experiences with racism and they still deny it exists, it\u2019s exhausting.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For multiracial Americans, having conversations with white relatives about the Black Lives Matter<\/a> movement and racial injustice is often an uphill battle.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rachel Elizabeth Weissler<\/a>, a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, has the kind of close-knit relationship with her dad most people would envy. He lives in Southern California<\/a>, where Weissler spent most of her childhood, but the two talk frequently. She calls him her \u201cbiggest cheerleader.\u201d<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s one topic they always seem to dance around: race.<\/p>\n

Weissler is biracial: Her dad is white and her mom is Black. Though her dad loves Black culture (\u201cBlack TV especially,\u201d Weissler said) and clearly, Black women, he tenses up when his daughter wants to talk about what it\u2019s like to be Black in America.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe avoids the subject, and when he does bring it up, it\u2019s often in an extremely superficial way,\u201d Weissler said…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For multiracial Americans, having conversations with white relatives about the Black Lives Matter movement and racial injustice is often an uphill battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,8,23674,20],"tags":[3031,10108,31029,19222,31028,31030,2425],"class_list":["post-59950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-brittany-wong","tag-huffington-post","tag-jessi-grieser","tag-nicole-holliday","tag-rachel-elizabeth-weissler","tag-robin-diangelo","tag-the-huffington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59950","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=59950"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59953,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59950\/revisions\/59953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}