{"id":10739,"date":"2010-12-12T22:53:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T22:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10739"},"modified":"2019-01-30T02:56:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T02:56:10","slug":"%e2%80%9crace%e2%80%9d-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10739","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRace\u201d Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Trials contesting racial identity illustrate the ways that racial categories have come into being over the course of U.S. history.\u00a0 Through them we can observe the changing meaning of race throughout our history, and the changes and continuities in racism itself, from the roots in a slave society up through the twentieth century.\u00a0 Drawing lines between \u201craces\u201d determined not only who could be free but also who could be capable of citizenship.\u00a0 Thus the trials of racial identity became trials about the attributes of citizenship for the men and women who were their subjects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gross, Ariela J. 2008. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=2682\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What Blood Won&#8217;t Tell:\u00a0A History of Race on Trial in America<\/a><\/em>. page 7. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trials contesting racial identity illustrate the ways that racial categories have come into being over the course of U.S. history.\u00a0 Through them we can observe the changing meaning of race throughout our history, and the changes and continuities in racism itself, from the roots in a slave society up through the twentieth century.\u00a0 Drawing lines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[880,873],"class_list":["post-10739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-ariela-gross","tag-ariela-j-gross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739","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=10739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57426,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739\/revisions\/57426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}