{"id":14639,"date":"2011-07-01T03:24:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T03:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14639"},"modified":"2015-01-21T18:51:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:51:58","slug":"closing-the-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14639","title":{"rendered":"Closing the Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattwray.com\/work\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">[Matt] Wray<\/a> puts it: \u201cIt speaks to the fastest-growing segment of Americans\u2014those of mixed race\u2014starting to rewrite the script. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Obama<\/a>, in his blackness, is free to explore his whiteness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The circle won\u2019t be closed, of course, until millions of white Americans embrace the Africa in <em>their<\/em> pasts. Forty million claim Irish roots. How many will claim African?\u2026<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John Timpane, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14351\" target=\"_blank\">In visit to Ireland, O\u2019Bama seeks to reverse U.S. notions of race<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>, May 25, 2011. <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/2011-05-25\/news\/29582090_1_ollie-hayes-barack-obama-president-obama\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/2011-05-25\/news\/29582090_1_ollie-hayes-barack-obama-president-obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As [Matt] Wray puts it: \u201cIt speaks to the fastest-growing segment of Americans\u2014those of mixed race\u2014starting to rewrite the script. Obama, in his blackness, is free to explore his whiteness.\u201d The circle won\u2019t be closed, of course, until millions of white Americans embrace the Africa in their pasts. Forty million claim Irish roots. How many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,3],"tags":[6625,6626],"class_list":["post-14639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-excerpts","tag-john-timpane","tag-matt-wray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14639","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=14639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}