{"id":13420,"date":"2011-04-22T20:25:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T20:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13420"},"modified":"2013-06-17T20:31:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:31:56","slug":"13420","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13420","title":{"rendered":"Racial Mixing = Racial Progress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Because of our nation\u2019s history of slavery, segregation and interment, racism is conflated with physical racial separation. As a consequence racial progress is conflated with racial mixing. Multiracial individuals and interracial families are touted as icons of racial healing because they are thought to have special insights based on what they are\u2014mixed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0Marcia Alesan Dawkins, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=12103\" target=\"_blank\">The Coming MiscegeNation?<\/a>,\u201d <em>Truthdig<\/em>, February 13, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of our nation\u2019s history of slavery, segregation and interment, racism is conflated with physical racial separation. As a consequence racial progress is conflated with racial mixing. Multiracial individuals and interracial families are touted as icons of racial healing because they are thought to have special insights based on what they are\u2014mixed. \u00a0Marcia Alesan Dawkins, [&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":[3083,2408,2406],"class_list":["post-13420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-marcia-a-dawkins","tag-marcia-alesan-dawkins","tag-marcia-dawkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13420","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=13420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}