{"id":64204,"date":"2023-03-13T03:34:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T03:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64204"},"modified":"2023-03-13T03:40:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T03:40:04","slug":"that-time-i-clapped-back-at-langston-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64204","title":{"rendered":"That Time I Clapped Back at Langston Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mixedauntie.substack.com\/p\/that-time-i-clapped-back-at-langston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>That Time I Clapped Back at Langston Hughes<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mixedauntie.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mixed Auntie Confidential<\/a><br \/>\n2023-03-05<\/p>\n<p><strong>TaRessa Stovall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mixedauntie.substack.com\/p\/that-time-i-clapped-back-at-langston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d80ca84-dd26-4b45-970a-430f429ec593_480x640.jpeg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><small>Me at age 3<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even as a child, I balked at the stereotype of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tragic Mulatto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t make sense to me.<\/p>\n<p>And I straight-up resented its implication: that my existence was tragic and my whole life worthless because I was \u201cthis close to\u201d but not completely white.<\/p>\n<p>Neither I nor any of the Mixed folks I grew up with seemed the least bit miserable about our ancestry or identities.<\/p>\n<p>I was a young \u201cbookworm\u201d\u2014today I\u2019d be called an avid reader\u2014regularly devouring the works of many fine poets and authors including <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Langston_Hughes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Langston Hughes<\/a>, who was one of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/mixedauntie.substack.com\/p\/that-time-i-clapped-back-at-langston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as a child, I balked at the stereotype of the Tragic Mulatto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,125,8,20],"tags":[488,33318,23102],"class_list":["post-64204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-langston-hughes","tag-mixed-auntie-confidential","tag-taressa-stovall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64204","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=64204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64207,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64204\/revisions\/64207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}