{"id":61394,"date":"2021-08-31T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61394"},"modified":"2021-08-31T14:12:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:12:10","slug":"on-rare-occasions-when-my-skin-contrasts-with-a-white-shirt-or-the-humidity-enhances-the-curliness-of-my-hair-people-might-recognize-me-as-the-black-man-that-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61394","title":{"rendered":"On rare occasions, when my skin contrasts with a white shirt, or the humidity enhances the curliness of my hair, people might recognize me as the Black man that I am."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I am a descendant of slaves and slave owners. My mixed heritage extends back as far as I can trace my ancestry. I have light beige skin, loosely curly brown hair, an angular nose, a small mouth, and brown almond-shaped eyes. I never know how others read my racially ambiguous appearance. On rare occasions, when my skin contrasts with a white shirt, or the humidity enhances the curliness of my hair, people might recognize me as the Black man that I am. Most of the time, they accept me as an ethnic variant of a broadly conceived whiteness. People are occasionally curious, and they try to press me for details.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Herb Harris, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I Was Expecting a Black Guy by Herb Harris<\/a>,\u201d <em>Hippocampus Magazine<\/em>, January 8, 2021. https:\/\/hippocampusmagazine.com\/2021\/01\/i-was-expecting-a-black-guy-by-herb-harris\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a descendant of slaves and slave owners. My mixed heritage extends back as far as I can trace my ancestry. I have light beige skin, loosely curly brown hair, an angular nose, a small mouth, and brown almond-shaped eyes. I never know how others read my racially ambiguous appearance. On rare occasions, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31734,31823,26577,31798,31142],"class_list":["post-61394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-herb-harris","tag-herb-w-harris","tag-herbert-harris","tag-herbert-w-harris","tag-hippocampus-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61394","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=61394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61395,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61394\/revisions\/61395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}