{"id":60815,"date":"2021-05-25T01:31:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T01:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60815"},"modified":"2021-05-25T01:31:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T01:31:31","slug":"why-you-should-read-swirl-girl-the-coming-of-race-in-the-usa-by-taressa-stovall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60815","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Read \u201cSwirl Girl, The Coming Of Race In The USA\u201d, By TaRessa Stovall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.girltalkhq.com\/why-you-should-read-swirl-girl-the-coming-of-race-in-the-usa-by-taressa-stovall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Why You Should Read \u201cSwirl Girl, The Coming Of Race In The USA\u201d, By TaRessa Stovall<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.girltalkhq.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Girl Talk HQ: The Global Headquarters of Female Empowerment Stories &amp; Voices<\/a><br \/>\n2020-06-16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nancyburkestories.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Nancy Burke<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.girltalkhq.com\/why-you-should-read-swirl-girl-the-coming-of-race-in-the-usa-by-taressa-stovall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.girltalkhq.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/woman-sitting-wearing-orange-and-white-v-neck-striped-elbow-1848886-scaled-e1591733907190.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59690\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swirl Girl, the Coming of Race in the USA<\/a>\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/taressastovall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TaRessa Stovall<\/a> is your first step in learning what it is like to walk through the world as a child, teen and woman whose ethnic identity is not immediately discernible; to live with the relentless scrutiny of your skin, hair and features by just about anyone you meet; and to be continuously subjected to the question, What are you?<\/p>\n<p>Stovall\u2019s father was a Black man. Her mother, a Jewish woman. In Stovall\u2019s memoir, \u201cSwirl Girl,\u201d she describes the different perspectives each of her parents had regarding how their mixed-race children should navigate the wider world. Stovall and her brother internalize the two views they learned from their parents, and as life goes on, each embraces what works for them and sheds those attitudes that do not serve. Stovall\u2019s loving but conflicted response to each parent\u2019s belief about who she should be and which sides of herself she should put front and center are beautifully rendered with the inherent complexity involved in her coming of age&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire book review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.girltalkhq.com\/why-you-should-read-swirl-girl-the-coming-of-race-in-the-usa-by-taressa-stovall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why You Should Read \u201cSwirl Girl, The Coming Of Race In The USA\u201d, By TaRessa Stovall Girl Talk HQ: The Global Headquarters of Female Empowerment Stories &amp; Voices 2020-06-16 Nancy Burke \u201cSwirl Girl, the Coming of Race in the USA\u201d by TaRessa Stovall is your first step in learning what it is like to walk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,5,8,20],"tags":[31424,31423,31425,23102],"class_list":["post-60815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-girl-talk-hq","tag-girl-talk-hq-the-global-headquarters-of-female-empowerment-stories-voices","tag-nancy-burke","tag-taressa-stovall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60815","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=60815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60818,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60815\/revisions\/60818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}