{"id":5168,"date":"2004-02-12T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-12T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5168"},"modified":"2021-06-11T21:36:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:36:10","slug":"a-biracial-generation-looks-for-its-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/02\/12\/a-biracial-generation-looks-for-its-place\/","title":{"rendered":"A biracial generation looks for its place"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s sad that the people in this story believe that it is acceptable to call themselves “biracial” or “black” but never “white.” Is “white” some kind of godlike identity of which they remain forever unworthy? This is why I’ve constantly emphasized the importance of establishing a “multiracial whiteness” in American culture. It exists in reality, we just have to get it publicly recognized.<\/p>\n

Searching for identity as nation reweaves racial fabric<\/a>
\nNeither black nor white, a biracial generation looks for its place
\nSunday, February 8, 2004
\nBY MARIANNE RZEPKA
\nNews Staff Reporter<\/p>\n

Karen Downing looks white, but she’s half African-American.<\/p>\n

“If I identified the way people thought that I should, I would be a total headcase,” she says. “One group of people would say I should identify as black, others would say, ‘You look white. You should say you are white.’ Others would say you should be both.”<\/p>\n

Downing says what she is: biracial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s sad that the people in this story believe that it is acceptable to call themselves “biracial” or “black” but never “white.” Is “white” some kind of godlike identity of which they remain forever...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-5168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-biracial-and-multiracial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1lm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7149,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168\/revisions\/7149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}