{"id":63582,"date":"2022-03-29T18:32:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T18:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63582"},"modified":"2022-03-29T18:55:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T18:55:39","slug":"im-biracial-but-rejected-my-blackness-for-years-heres-why-i-stopped-passing-for-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63582","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Biracial, But Rejected My Blackness For Years. Here\u2019s Why I Stopped Passing For White."},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m Biracial, But Rejected My Blackness For Years. Here\u2019s Why I Stopped Passing For White.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Huffington Post<\/a>
\n2022-03-24<\/p>\n

Eleanor Beaton<\/strong><\/a>, Guest Writer<\/p>\n

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The author (left) with her mother. PHOTO COURTESY OF ELEANOR BEATON<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Unknowingly, I started to reject all of the parts of myself that were Black.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The school bus screeched to a halt. My mother, a Black Fijian woman who proudly embraced her natural \u2019fro, was waiting for me at the bus stop.<\/p>\n

\u201cBye, n***a,\u201d another kid said loudly, as I got up from my seat.<\/p>\n

As an adult, due to my mixed heritage, many people describe me as \u201cwhite-appearing\u201d or racially ambiguous. But in Nova Scotia<\/a> in the 1980s \u2014 with my tanned skin and thick curly hair in a sea of whiteness \u2014 I was reminded on a daily basis that I was different. I was an other. No matter how hard I tried, I would never blend in.<\/p>\n

I asked my white father to fetch me from the bus stop going forward…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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