{"id":61153,"date":"2021-08-01T22:28:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T22:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61153"},"modified":"2021-08-01T22:28:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T22:28:02","slug":"spy-in-the-house-of-race-a-daughter-of-black-chinese-and-jewish-parents-on-belonging-everywhere-and-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61153","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Spy In The House Of Race\u2019: A Daughter Of Black, Chinese, And Jewish Parents On Belonging Everywhere And Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Spy In The House Of Race\u2019: A Daughter Of Black, Chinese, And Jewish Parents On Belonging Everywhere And Nowhere<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

LAist<\/a>
Southern California Public Radio<\/a>
Pasadena, California
2021-05-14<\/p>\n

Lili Nadja Barsha<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Lili Barsha, left, as a child with her parents, Tony and Yen, and younger brother Jake.
(Courtesy of Lili Barsha)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I’m an American of African, Asian, European, and Native descent.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve lived all over the world and have been taken for many things. I describe myself as multi-racial, Mixed in America, blended. I tend to reject the hyphen \u2014 I see it as a little plank that walks us off our citizen ship. By us, I mean we people of color other than white. I have too many planks to walk as a Black, white, red, yellow \u2014 therefore, tan \u2014 American.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m nobody’s All-American, a spy in the house of race.<\/p>\n

Ethnicity shapes what I eat, what music I listen to, what I read, and who I keep as company. It defines culture, family, history, and aesthetics.<\/p>\n

I am the bloom of my ancestors. A vessel filled with genetic memory. That, and memories of otherness. Here are some of them…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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