{"id":63396,"date":"2022-03-11T21:58:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T21:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63396"},"modified":"2022-03-11T21:58:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T21:58:15","slug":"uncovering-family-secrets-forming-a-new-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63396","title":{"rendered":"Uncovering Family Secrets: Forming a New Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapl.org\/collections-resources\/blogs\/lapl\/uncovering-family-secrets-forming-new-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Uncovering Family Secrets: Forming a New Identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapl.org\/collections-resources\/blogs\/lapl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Public Library Blog<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapl.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Public Library<\/a><br \/>\nLos Angeles, California<br \/>\n2022-03-07<\/p>\n<p><strong>Janice Batzdorff<\/strong>, Librarian<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapl.org\/collections-resources\/blogs\/lapl\/uncovering-family-secrets-forming-new-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; width: 98%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lapl.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/blog_feature_image\/public\/blogs\/2022-03\/forming-new-identity-fin.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine discovering that the man who raised you is not your biological father. That your mother\u2019s race differs from how she presented herself. That the person you are attracted to is your sibling. That you are the descendent of a renowned individual. A monstrous one.<\/p>\n<p>Unknown details about blood relationships surface through <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genetic_testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DNA testing<\/a>, genealogical research, an adoptee meeting a birth parent, or a confession made, perhaps after a loved one dies. Learning the truth triggers feelings ranging from betrayal to outrage over privileges denied, to joy at meeting new relatives, to a sense of peace in connecting to one\u2019s heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Novelists have the latitude to develop a backstory for family secrets, whereas historians and memoir writers generally don\u2019t have access to such information. Are the fictional narratives about lineage less plausible? To decide, consider the following true stories&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapl.org\/collections-resources\/blogs\/lapl\/uncovering-family-secrets-forming-new-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncovering Family Secrets: Forming a New Identity Los Angeles Public Library Blog Los Angeles Public Library Los Angeles, California 2022-03-07 Janice Batzdorff, Librarian Imagine discovering that the man who raised you is not your biological father. That your mother\u2019s race differs from how she presented herself. That the person you are attracted to is your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,6462],"tags":[33233,33234,33235],"class_list":["post-63396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","tag-janice-batzdorff","tag-los-angeles-public-library","tag-los-angeles-public-library-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63396","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=63396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63397,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63396\/revisions\/63397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}