{"id":63940,"date":"2022-06-23T17:55:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T17:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63940"},"modified":"2022-06-23T17:55:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T17:55:26","slug":"yeah-but-where-are-you-really-from-a-story-of-overcoming-the-odds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63940","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, but Where are You Really From? A story of overcoming the odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/yeah-but-where-are-you-really-from-a-story-of-overcoming-the-odds-1.4880771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Yeah, but Where are You Really From? A story of overcoming the odds<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Irish Times<\/a><br \/>\nDublin, Ireland<br \/>\n2022-05-28<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/__adesewa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Adesewa Awobadejo<\/strong><\/a>, Features Journalist<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/yeah-but-where-are-you-really-from-a-story-of-overcoming-the-odds-1.4880771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; width: 85%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/resizer\/fclI2KeEDRdwe2MJjs6pOJlUWmQ=\/1600x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/irishtimes\/LUUPY2L2LFYW2WYCCFRWEKDJGQ.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption style=\"font-size: x-small; display: block; width: 85%;\">Marguerite Penrose: her memoir celebrates the diversity of Irishness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Book review: Marguerite Penrose writes about her experiences as a mixed-race girl growing up in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dublin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dublin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Marguerite Penrose, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? A story of overcoming the odds<\/em><\/a> (Dublin, Ireland: Sandycove, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Black and Irish voices have emerged in recent years and this debut is an astonishing addition to the ongoing conversations.<\/p>\n<p>The memoir takes us from 1974 to present-day Ireland through the eyes of the author, Marguerite Penrose. Born with congenital <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scoliosis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scoliosis<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_Patrick%27s_Mother_and_Baby_Home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St Patrick\u2019s Mother and Baby Home<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dublin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dublin\u2019s<\/a> Navan Road, Penrose writes about her experiences as a mixed-race girl growing up in the city. Offering a brief glimpse into her life at this home before moving in with her foster family, she gives us a unique avenue to understand this hidden element of Irish history. Her warm and deeply personal memoir celebrates her achievements and exposes the struggles she had to endure&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/yeah-but-where-are-you-really-from-a-story-of-overcoming-the-odds-1.4880771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book review: Marguerite Penrose writes about her experiences as a mixed-race girl growing up in Dublin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,5,28,8],"tags":[33599,14115,246,16528,31236,16526],"class_list":["post-63940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-book-reviews","category-europe","category-media-archive","tag-adesewa-awobadejo","tag-dublin","tag-ireland","tag-irish-times","tag-marguerite-penrose","tag-the-irish-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63940","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=63940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63942,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63940\/revisions\/63942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}