{"id":9635,"date":"2010-10-19T02:40:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T02:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9635"},"modified":"2017-03-30T17:57:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T17:57:13","slug":"mulattobama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9635","title":{"rendered":"Mulattobama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/aug\/14\/barackobama.uselections2008\" target=\"_blank\">Mulattobama<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2008-08-14<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.ccny.cuny.edu\/prospective\/humanities\/english\/faculty\/eraboteau.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Raboteau<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>The City College of New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama&#8217;s<\/a> presidential campaign has shown, being mixed race in America means balancing black and white identities<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My boyfriend, Victor, and I flew into <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingston,_Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\">Kingston<\/a> the day after Barack Obama clinched the Democratic party nomination. We were giddy. A trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaica<\/a> and a potential black president. We were discussing Obama&#8217;s campaign on the flight down when Victor suddenly asked: &#8220;How would you feel if our baby came out looking white?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Negro, puh<em>leez<\/em>,&#8221; I said, polishing off my airline peanuts. &#8220;I am not pregnant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Answer the question,&#8221; he pushed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/aug\/14\/barackobama.uselections2008\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Barack Obama&#8217;s presidential campaign has shown, being mixed race in America means balancing black and white identities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,125,8,394,20],"tags":[2358,2103],"class_list":["post-9635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-emily-raboteau","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9635","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=9635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53117,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9635\/revisions\/53117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}