{"id":63729,"date":"2022-05-06T02:09:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T02:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63729"},"modified":"2022-05-07T20:49:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T20:49:52","slug":"a-mixed-race-son-choosing-his-identity-is-a-lesson-for-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63729","title":{"rendered":"A mixed-race son choosing his identity is a lesson for us all"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mixed-race son choosing his identity is a lesson for us all<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>
\n2022-05-03<\/p>\n

Kevin Fisher-Paulson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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This week, Aidan decided he is Black.<\/p>\n

He announced this at the family dinner table, as we served mashed potatoes, green beans and meat loaf. Aidan used to like my meat loaf, but everything changes.<\/p>\n

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Aidan\u2019s Black now. Partly because he feels more comfortable in his skin at Compass High, whereas I think he felt that he needed to be White while he was at Riordan. Partly because of teenage rebellion. If my husband Brian and I were Black, I\u2019m pretty sure he\u2019d say he was white.<\/p>\n

When he was little, he used to insist on his whiteness. One afternoon, after kindergarten, he got into the front seat of the Griffin (our old family car) and announced, \u201cZane\u2019s the only one who has to sit in the back of the car.\u201d Aidan had missed the nuances in his teacher\u2019s lesson about Rosa Parks<\/a>. It is one of the few times I\u2019ve ever seen Zane cry.<\/p>\n

Aidan’s Black now. Partly, I hope, because he knows that although he and Zane have challenges, underneath it all, they are brothers.<\/p>\n

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

A mixed-race son choosing his identity is a lesson for us all The San Francisco Chronicle 2022-05-03 Kevin Fisher-Paulson This week, Aidan decided he is Black. He announced this at the family dinner table, as we served mashed potatoes, green beans and meat loaf. Aidan used to like my meat loaf, but everything changes. Aidan\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,125,8,20],"tags":[33456,2820,24358],"class_list":["post-63729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-kevin-fisher-paulson","tag-san-francisco-chronicle","tag-the-san-francisco-chronicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63729","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=63729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63737,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63729\/revisions\/63737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}