{"id":9289,"date":"2010-09-30T17:47:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T17:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9289"},"modified":"2011-06-25T20:15:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T20:15:47","slug":"mixed-ismixed-ain%e2%80%99t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9289","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Is\/Mixed Ain\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/mixedreamers.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/mixed-ismixed-aint.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Is\/Mixed Ain\u2019t<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mixedreamers.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Dreams:\u00a0towards a radical multiracial\/ethnic movement<\/a><br \/>\n2010-08-09<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/new.oberlin.edu\/office\/multicultural-resource-center\/staff_detail.dot?id=1331669\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Asong Nfonoyim<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Director, Multicultural Resource Center and Africana Community Coordinator<br \/>\n<em>Oberlin College<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;As someone who has never <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passed<\/a> as anything other than black (and maybe a lil\u2019 somethin\u2019 <em>else <\/em>from time to time, but always black), I was surprised to find just how much of Birdie\u2019s story resonated with me\u2014the idea that our mixed bodies become at once the canvas and the mirror upon which others cast their perceptions of who we are. At the same time, I kept wanting to get inside Cole\u2019s head. I wanted to hear her side of the story\u2014the story of the sister \u201cleft behind\u201d\u2014the sister who\u2019s \u201cblack\u201d body could not be erased or so easily forgotten. Instead of feeling like Birdie, I found I felt much more like Cole. We only hear about Cole through Birdie and see her through Birdie\u2019s eyes. Birdie seems envious of the ease with which her sister can pass through and into the black community, while she struggles to make her blackness visible. Ultimately, Birdie passes as <em>white<\/em>, Cole passes as<em> black<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, this idea of <em>passing<\/em> has been nagging me. Racial ambiguity and passing are big issues in our multi experiences, yet\u00a0 are they prerequisites? How do our current conceptions of passing support the centering of white\/non-white identities in the mixed community? Can we think of passing as multidirectional\u2014not just passing as white, but also the ability to pass as black, Asian, Latin@ or even races\/ethnicities we don&#8217;t identify with at all?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire essay <a href=\"http:\/\/mixedreamers.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/mixed-ismixed-aint.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed Is\/Mixed Ain\u2019t Mixed Dreams:\u00a0towards a radical multiracial\/ethnic movement 2010-08-09 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim, Assistant Director, Multicultural Resource Center and Africana Community Coordinator Oberlin College &#8230;As someone who has never passed as anything other than black (and maybe a lil\u2019 somethin\u2019 else from time to time, but always black), I was surprised to find just how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,125,6462,25],"tags":[3984,4861,3982,3983],"class_list":["post-9289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-identitydevelopment","category-passing-2","category-women","tag-mixed-dreams","tag-nicole-a-nfonoyim","tag-nicole-asong-nfonoyim","tag-nicole-nfonoyim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9289","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=9289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}