{"id":5175,"date":"2004-02-25T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-25T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5175"},"modified":"2021-06-14T16:41:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T16:41:30","slug":"the-meaning-of-mulatto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/02\/25\/the-meaning-of-mulatto\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of Mulatto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radcliffe.edu\/quarterly\/199703\/page33a.html\">The Meaning of Mulatto<\/a><br \/>\nRadcliffe Quarterly Fall \/ Winter 1997<br \/>\nby Erin Bannister<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My mother is white. My father is black. But I have never known what I am. I used to define myself as multiracial, an eleven-letter, four-syllable, politically correct, trendy word. But this changed when I entered ninth grade and my French teacher asked: Who isn&#8217;t multiracial? So when eleventh grade rolled around with the SATs, I became &#8220;Other&#8221;-a less-than-romantic, slightly mysterious, but definitely unsatisfying word. However, when I told this to my father, he reprimanded me for not marking black on the test questionnaire. He insisted I call the SAT headquarters to change what I had put. For reasons I have never understood, he firmly believed that the right answer was black. <\/p>\n<p>When I look in the mirror, I see a person who looks like she has a tan even in the winter, and whose hair may be dark, but not always curly. I have no prominent African American features (assuming that such features exist on anyone). And, although I am sometimes mistaken for being Spanish, people generally see me as white.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Meaning of Mulatto Radcliffe Quarterly Fall \/ Winter 1997 by Erin Bannister My mother is white. My father is black. But I have never known what I am. I used to define myself&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-5175","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_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1lt","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175","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=5175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7386,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions\/7386"}],"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=5175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}