{"id":60602,"date":"2021-03-06T22:48:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T22:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60602"},"modified":"2021-03-06T22:48:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T22:48:54","slug":"they-were-black-their-parents-were-white-growing-up-was-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60602","title":{"rendered":"They Were Black. Their Parents Were White. Growing Up Was Complicated."},"content":{"rendered":"

They Were Black. Their Parents Were White. Growing Up Was Complicated.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\nBook Reviews
\n2021-02-23<\/p>\n

Bliss Broyard<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nGeorgina Lawton<\/a> (Left), Rebecca Carroll<\/a> (Right) Jamie Simonds\/Loftus Media, Laura Fuchs<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Georgina Lawton, Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong<\/em><\/a> (New York: Harper Perennial, 2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rebecca Carroll, Surviving the White Gaze, A Memoir<\/em><\/a> (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n

For most of us, racial identity is a combination of inheritance (you are what your parents are) and influence (you\u2019re a product of where and how you were raised). But what if you are raised by people who didn\u2019t look like you, in communities where you were the only one, steeped in a culture whose power was amassed through your oppression?<\/p>\n

In a pair of new memoirs \u2014 \u201cSurviving the White Gaze<\/a>,\u201d by the American cultural critic Rebecca Carroll<\/a>, and \u201cRaceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong<\/a>,\u201d by the British journalist Georgina Lawton<\/a> \u2014 two women recount growing up as Black girls with white parents who loved them deeply but failed them miserably by not seeing and celebrating them for who they were…<\/p>\n

Read the review of both books here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a pair of new memoirs \u2014 \u201cSurviving the White Gaze,\u201d by the American cultural critic Rebecca Carroll, and \u201cRaceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong,\u201d by the British journalist Georgina Lawton \u2014 two women recount growing up as Black girls with white parents who loved them deeply but failed them miserably by not seeing and celebrating them for who they were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,395,5,10,20,25],"tags":[1871,26540,2640,22899,2327],"class_list":["post-60602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-book-reviews","category-uk","category-usa","category-women","tag-bliss-broyard","tag-georgina-lawton","tag-new-york-times","tag-rebecca-carroll","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60602","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=60602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60605,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60602\/revisions\/60605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}