{"id":61993,"date":"2021-10-29T16:22:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61993"},"modified":"2021-10-30T01:35:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T01:35:23","slug":"when-i-walk-in-to-teach-black-studies-some-students-arent-sure-im-the-professor-he-says-i-get-it-its-about-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61993","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen I walk in to teach black studies, some students aren\u2019t sure I\u2019m the professor,\u201d he says. \u201cI get it. It\u2019s about expectations.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berkeley,_California\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley, California<\/a>, to a white Jewish father with family in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elmont,_New_York\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elmont, Long Island<\/a>, and a black Episcopalian mother with deep roots in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston<\/a>, where the family would settle when Zebulon was 3, Miletsky\u2019s blended heritage and a pale complexion that sometimes gets him mistaken as white has informed each move of his life. That means personally \u2014 he\u2019s now married (his wife, Karla, is Latina) with two young sons and lives in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bushwick%2C_Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bushwick, Brooklyn<\/a> \u2014 and professionally. The ever-echoing theme: That dividing line between black and white&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u201cWhen I walk in to teach black studies, some students aren\u2019t sure I\u2019m the professor,\u201d he says. \u201cI get it. It\u2019s about expectations.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Joe Dziemianowicz, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stony Brook professor\u2019s biracial heritage has lessons for life, classroom<\/a>,\u201d <em>Newsday<\/em>, February 26, 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/long-island\/stony-brook-professor-to-lead-black-history-month-panel-in-brentwood-1.41980672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/long-island\/stony-brook-professor-to-lead-black-history-month-panel-in-brentwood-1.41980672<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Berkeley, California, to a white Jewish father with family in Elmont, Long Island, and a black Episcopalian mother with deep roots in Boston, where the family would settle when Zebulon was 3, Miletsky\u2019s blended heritage and a pale complexion that sometimes gets him mistaken as white has informed each move of his life. [&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":[32215,32214,3709,3708,4091],"class_list":["post-61993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-joe-dziemianowicz","tag-newsday","tag-zebulon-miletsky","tag-zebulon-v-miletsky","tag-zebulon-vance-miletsky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61993","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=61993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62010,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61993\/revisions\/62010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}