{"id":13711,"date":"2011-05-09T03:48:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T03:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13711"},"modified":"2017-02-12T17:57:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T17:57:18","slug":"multiracial-identity-white-supremacy-and-miscegenation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13711","title":{"rendered":"When examining the issue of multiracial identity, it is important to understand the legacy of white supremacy."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When examining the issue of multiracial identity, it is important to understand the legacy of white supremacy.\u00a0 It is a theory and practice based on the irrational opinion that white Europeans (mainly <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anglo-Saxons\" target=\"_blank\">Anglo-Saxon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northern_Europe\">Northern European<\/a>\u00a0origin) are inherently superior to non-Anglo-Saxon origin peoples\u2014particularly those of African and Asian ancestry.\u00a0 Moreover, it is also a theory and practice that hover over the subject and analysis of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a>.\u00a0 Absurd as it is, we have an approximate 500-year history of European domination and subjugation of African and Asian peoples, yet wherever Europeans have colonised they have sexually intermingled with the indigenous populations.\u00a0 Apart from this obvious paradox, it is a taboo subject that should be exposed, yet rarely does this occur in an academic sense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mark Christian. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=2117\" target=\"_blank\">Multiracial Identity: An International Perpective<\/a><\/em> (Palgrave: Hampshire, England, 2000), p 105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When examining the issue of multiracial identity, it is important to understand the legacy of white supremacy.\u00a0 It is a theory and practice based on the irrational opinion that white Europeans (mainly Anglo-Saxon and Northern European\u00a0origin) are inherently superior to non-Anglo-Saxon origin peoples\u2014particularly those of African and Asian ancestry.\u00a0 Moreover, it is also a theory [&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":[220,26210],"class_list":["post-13711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-mark-christian","tag-palgrave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13711","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=13711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51547,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13711\/revisions\/51547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}