{"id":14888,"date":"2013-03-25T19:17:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T19:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14888"},"modified":"2013-03-25T19:18:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T19:18:53","slug":"the-holistic-lucy-parsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14888","title":{"rendered":"In actuality, Lucy Parsons seemed to be holistically embracing her complete ethnic heritage, not merely a fraction of it."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In hindsight, onlookers often accuse <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucy_Parsons\" target=\"_blank\">Lucy Parsons<\/a> of negating her African heritage for a seemingly more desirable ethnic identity. There is a sense, especially within the modern African American community, that a person of color self-labeling anything other than exclusively Black is virtually treasonous and committing a form of identity denial and self-hate. Criticism of notable individuals such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger Woods<\/a> and others exemplify this sentiment of betrayal. In actuality, Lucy Parsons seemed to be holistically embracing her complete ethnic heritage, not merely a fraction of it. Therefore, the question must ultimately be posed as to how the legacy of those early externally defined racial and ethnic designations can provide a better consideration of multiracial designations in contemporary times\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Michelle Diane Wright, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14817\" target=\"_blank\">Confounding Identity: Exploring the Life and Discourse of Lucy E. Parsons<\/a>,\u201d <em>Berks Conference for Women Historians<\/em>, 2011, 29 pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In hindsight, onlookers often accuse Lucy Parsons of negating her African heritage for a seemingly more desirable ethnic identity. There is a sense, especially within the modern African American community, that a person of color self-labeling anything other than exclusively Black is virtually treasonous and committing a form of identity denial and self-hate. Criticism of [&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":[6817,6815,6816,6814,6813,6812,2998],"class_list":["post-14888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-lucy-e-parsons","tag-lucy-eldine-gonzalez-parsons","tag-lucy-eldine-parsons","tag-lucy-parsons","tag-michelle-d-wright","tag-michelle-diane-wright","tag-michelle-wright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14888","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=14888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}