{"id":13185,"date":"2011-04-09T01:43:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T01:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13185"},"modified":"2017-06-28T00:29:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T00:29:27","slug":"the-limits-of-the-choice-of-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13185","title":{"rendered":"The Limits of the Choice of Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cA tree, whatever the circumstances, does not become a legume, a vine, or a cow,\u201d explains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appiah.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kwame Anthony Appiah<\/a> in <em>The Ethics Of Identity<\/em>. \u201cThe reasonable middle view is that constructing an identity is a good thing (if self-authorship is a good thing) but that the identity must make some kind of sense. <strong>And for it to make sense, it must be an identity constructed in response to facts outside oneself, things that are beyond one\u2019s own choices.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A society in which \u201cCablinasian\u201d makes sense has yet to be created. Like a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rwanda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rwanda<\/a> full of <em>Hutsis<\/em> [Hutu\/Tutsi], it exists only in the imagination. That does not necessarily mean that such a society could not or should not emerge. But \u201cthe facts beyond one\u2019s own choice\u201d do not yet allow it. Identities may be constructed and can be built differently. But we can only work with the materials available.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gary Younge, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tiger Woods: Black, white, other<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Guardian<\/em>. May 29, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA tree, whatever the circumstances, does not become a legume, a vine, or a cow,\u201d explains Kwame Anthony Appiah in The Ethics Of Identity. \u201cThe reasonable middle view is that constructing an identity is a good thing (if self-authorship is a good thing) but that the identity must make some kind of sense. And for [&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":[3155,1708,7464,105],"class_list":["post-13185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-gary-younge","tag-kwame-anthony-appiah","tag-kwame-appiah","tag-tiger-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185","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=13185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54321,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185\/revisions\/54321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}