{"id":61446,"date":"2021-09-11T18:31:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T18:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61446"},"modified":"2021-09-11T18:31:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T18:31:28","slug":"a-black-white-biracial-life-is-one-of-immense-alienation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61446","title":{"rendered":"A Black-white, biracial life is one of immense alienation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/opinion\/a-black-white-biracial-life-is-one-of-immense-alienation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>A Black-white, biracial life is one of immense alienation<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Gazette<\/a><br \/>\nCedar Rapids, Iowa<br \/>\n2021-08-29<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicholekshaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Nichole Shaw<\/strong><\/a>, Editorial Fellow<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/opinion\/a-black-white-biracial-life-is-one-of-immense-alienation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.cdr.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e1953706-5f44-5533-a843-b19125228c19&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1050&amp;height=550\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicholekshaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><small>Nichole Shaw<\/small><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a> bombards its constituents with stories surrounding the division between white and Black culture, livelihoods, experiences, politics, social class and economic hierarchy. Being biracial in a world that starkly contrasts the division of white and Black means being at war with oneself, never truly feeling that you belong to either group. Rather, the biracial condition can leave a person stranded in a gray continuum, a place where only those who are neither accepted or rejected are subject to ridicule, pity, envy and hate \u2014 both for their mixed color but \u201ctainted\u201d soul. They struggle with the weight of white privilege and systemic racism, among a continuing list of complex identities that complicate the ways in which they aim to fit into the box society constructs for stereotypical racial roles.<\/p>\n<p>The condition of a Black-white biracial life is one of immense alienation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/opinion\/a-black-white-biracial-life-is-one-of-immense-alienation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will never experience the same struggle of my Black brothers and sisters, and I am ashamed to say that I\u2019m Black because of that \u2014 because I\u2019ll never experience that same suffering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,125,8,20],"tags":[31858,31859],"class_list":["post-61446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-nichole-shaw","tag-the-gazette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61446","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=61446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61447,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61446\/revisions\/61447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}