{"id":15338,"date":"2013-04-09T04:38:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T04:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15338"},"modified":"2018-05-19T17:54:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T17:54:22","slug":"ideas-of-racial-categories-that-continue-to-fragment-our-ability-to-imagine-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15338","title":{"rendered":"Ideas of racial categories that continue to fragment our ability to imagine humanity&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Unfortunately, so long as ideas of racial categories continue to fragment our ability to imagine humanity, many minorities have few choices but to cash in on their \u2018exotic\u2019 appeal. For Eurasian women, this means accepting all the baggage of deviancy, prostitution and foreignness that is implicit in it. It also means a lifetime of answering the \u201cwhat are you?\u201d question and being told that they are not their parents\u2019 children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lyn Dickens. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=15282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Being a Eurasian Australian<\/a>,\u201d <em>Yemaya: Sydney University Law Society\u2019s annual interdisciplinary Women\u2019s journal<\/em>, 2010 (2011): 34-36. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suls.org.au\/s\/yemaya_2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.suls.org.au\/s\/yemaya_2010.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, so long as ideas of racial categories continue to fragment our ability to imagine humanity, many minorities have few choices but to cash in on their \u2018exotic\u2019 appeal. For Eurasian women, this means accepting all the baggage of deviancy, prostitution and foreignness that is implicit in it. It also means a lifetime of answering [&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":[7070,17759,17758,7071,14761],"class_list":["post-15338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-lyn-dickens","tag-lyn-s-dickens","tag-lyn-sue-dickens","tag-yemaya","tag-yemaya-sydney-university-law-societys-annual-interdisciplinary-womens-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15338","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=15338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54876,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15338\/revisions\/54876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}