{"id":15813,"date":"2011-08-23T03:02:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T03:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15813"},"modified":"2017-05-28T21:52:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T21:52:41","slug":"as-it-is-currently-constructed-mixed-race-identity-does-not-dismantle-racial-hierarchies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15813","title":{"rendered":"As it is currently constructed, mixed-race identity does not dismantle racial hierarchies."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The increasing, uncritical media attention that both [Heidi] Durrow\u2019s work and mixed-race identity have received lately gives me pause. Accepting and embracing a mixed-race identity hardly reveals racial progress. As it is currently constructed, mixed-race identity does not dismantle racial hierarchies. Rather, it reiterates white supremacy by attempting to etch a space for itself somewhere under whiteness\u2013which it knows it can never access\u2013and definitely above blackness. Even claiming a mixed-race identity requires enough skin privilege to compel the (unscrupulous) gazer to ask, <em>\u201cWhat are you?\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Summer McDonald, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=15773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canon Fodder: \u2018The Girl Who Fell From the Sky\u2019 and the Problem of Mixed-Race Identity<\/a>,\u201d <em>Specter Magazine: Ghost+Blog<\/em>, August 18, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accepting and embracing a mixed-race identity hardly reveals racial progress. As it is currently constructed, mixed-race identity does not dismantle racial hierarchies. Rather, it reiterates white supremacy by attempting to etch a space for itself somewhere under whiteness\u2013which it knows it can never access\u2013and definitely above blackness.<\/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":[65,64,13984,7297],"class_list":["post-15813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-heidi-durrow","tag-heidi-w-durrow","tag-specter-magazine-a-brooklyn-based-art-journal","tag-summer-mcdonald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15813","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=15813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54050,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15813\/revisions\/54050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}