{"id":60689,"date":"2021-04-08T02:16:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T02:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60689"},"modified":"2021-04-08T02:17:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T02:17:58","slug":"how-one-woman-discovered-her-true-cultural-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60689","title":{"rendered":"How one woman discovered her true cultural heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-us-canada-56652064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>How one woman discovered her true cultural heritage<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC News<\/a><br \/>\n2021-04-06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-us-canada-56652064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/400xn\/p09cvxdq.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What would you do if you discovered one of your parents wasn&#8217;t who they said they were?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what happened to <a href=\"http:\/\/gaillukasik.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gail Lukasik<\/a> who found out her mother had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;passed&#8217; as white<\/a> to escape <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racial segregation in the US<\/a>, in the early 20th Century.<\/p>\n<p>She was, in fact, mixed race but had kept it secret all her life and made Gail promise to keep the secret until after she died.<\/p>\n<p>Gail has turned her story into a book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53530\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>White Like Her<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Video produced by Trystan Young.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-us-canada-56652064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gail Lukasik&#8217;s life was turned upside down when she discovered her mother was mixed race but had &#8216;passed&#8217; as white to escape racial segregation in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,369,8,6462,20,842,25],"tags":[5697,8597,25614,1438,31382],"class_list":["post-60689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-videos","category-women","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-gail-lukasik","tag-new-orleans","tag-trystan-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60689","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=60689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60692,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60689\/revisions\/60692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}