{"id":60597,"date":"2021-03-06T22:31:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T22:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60597"},"modified":"2022-03-08T15:59:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T15:59:16","slug":"raceless-in-search-of-family-identity-and-the-truth-about-where-i-belong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60597","title":{"rendered":"Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Harper Perennial<\/a> (an imprint of Harper Collins<\/a>)
\n2021-02-23
\n304 pages
\n5x8in
\nTrade Paperback ISBN: 9780063009486
\nE-book ISBN: 9780063009493
\nAudiobook ISBN: 9780063009509<\/p>\n

Georgina Lawton<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was no reason for her to think she was any different. But over time her brown skin and dark, kinky hair frequently made her a target of prejudice. In Georgina\u2019s insistently color-blind household, with no acknowledgement of her difference or access to black culture, she lacked the coordinates to make sense of who she was.<\/p>\n

It was only after her father\u2019s death that Georgina began to unravel the truth about her parentage\u2014and the racial identity that she had been denied. She fled from England<\/a> and the turmoil of her home-life to live in black communities around the globe\u2014the US<\/a>, the UK<\/a>, Nicaragua<\/a>, Cuba<\/a>, the Dominican Republic<\/a>, Vietnam<\/a>, and Morocco<\/a>\u2014and to explore her identity and what it meant to live in and navigate the world as a black woman. She spoke with psychologists, sociologists, experts in genetic testing, and other individuals whose experiences of racial identity have been fraught or questioned in the hopes of understanding how, exactly, we identify ourselves.<\/p>\n

Raceless<\/em> is an exploration of a fundamental question: what constitutes our sense of self? Drawing on her personal experiences and the stories of others, Lawton grapples with difficult questions about love, shame, grief, and prejudice, and reveals the nuanced and emotional journey of forming one\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong Harper Perennial (an imprint of Harper Collins) 2021-02-23 304 pages 5x8in Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780063009486 E-book ISBN: 9780063009493 Audiobook ISBN: 9780063009509 Georgina Lawton Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,21,414,8,17,10,20],"tags":[673,3468,81,26540,31336,9831,28336,8667,1130],"class_list":["post-60597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-latincarib","category-family","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-uk","category-usa","tag-cuba","tag-dominican-republic","tag-england","tag-georgina-lawton","tag-harper-collins","tag-harper-perennial","tag-morocco","tag-nicaragua","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60597","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=60597"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63329,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60597\/revisions\/63329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}