{"id":63865,"date":"2022-05-16T22:12:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T22:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63865"},"modified":"2022-05-16T22:12:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T22:12:12","slug":"markles-frankness-should-be-applauded-as-brave-in-a-nation-that-still-fails-to-fully-acknowledge-the-roughly-7-of-us-who-claim-multiple-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63865","title":{"rendered":"Markle\u2019s frankness should be applauded as brave in a nation that still fails to fully acknowledge the roughly 7% of us who claim multiple races."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meghan_Markle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Meghan] Markle\u2019s<\/a> frankness should be applauded as brave in a nation that still fails to fully acknowledge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/06\/census-was-wrong-7-percent-of-americans-are-multiracial-not-2-percent\/432159\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the roughly 7%<\/a> of us who claim multiple races. Indeed, either through erasure or denial, American media\u2014both social and traditional\u2014seem to insist that biracial folks like myself simply do not exist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>David Kaufman, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle is the biracial hero I\u2019ve always wanted<\/a>,\u201d <em>Quartz<\/em>, November 28, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/quartzy\/1138712\/is-meghan-markle-black-no-shes-biracial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/qz.com\/quartzy\/1138712\/is-meghan-markle-black-no-shes-biracial\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Meghan] Markle\u2019s frankness should be applauded as brave in a nation that still fails to fully acknowledge the roughly 7% of us who claim multiple races. Indeed, either through erasure or denial, American media\u2014both social and traditional\u2014seem to insist that biracial folks like myself simply do not exist. David Kaufman, \u201cMeghan Markle is the biracial [&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":[13448,20717,19497],"class_list":["post-63865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-david-kaufman","tag-meghan-markle","tag-quartz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63865","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=63865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63866,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63865\/revisions\/63866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}