{"id":16032,"date":"2011-09-03T04:45:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T04:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16032"},"modified":"2016-03-01T15:12:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T15:12:23","slug":"up-front-brent-staple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16032","title":{"rendered":"Up Front: Brent Staples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/04\/books\/review\/up-front-brent-staples.html\" target=\"_blank\">Up Front: Brent Staples<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sunday Book Review<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2011-09-02<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Editors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brent_Staples\" target=\"_blank\">Brent Staples<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=16029\" target=\"_blank\">who reviews Randall Kennedy\u2019s \u201cPersist\u00adence of the Color Line\u201d in this issue<\/a>, is working on a history of mixed-race identity in the United States. \u201cOne of the things that interested me in the last campaign,\u201d Staples wrote in an e-mail, \u201cwas the byplay having to do with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Obama\u2019s<\/a> racial origins. <strong>It struck me that the press and the public generally reserve the \u2018mixed race\u2019 label for the offspring of racially mixed marriages.<\/strong> But there is a paradox here. Obama, half black and half white, is, genetically speaking, not much whiter than I am, even though my nearest white forebears were <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a> slave owners who lived and died in the 19th century. Similarly, there are people who think of themselves as black who are, genetically speaking, 70 percent white or more.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/04\/books\/review\/up-front-brent-staples.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up Front: Brent Staples Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2011-09-02 The Editors Brent Staples, who reviews Randall Kennedy\u2019s \u201cPersist\u00adence of the Color Line\u201d in this issue, is working on a history of mixed-race identity in the United States. \u201cOne of the things that interested me in the last campaign,\u201d Staples wrote in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,459,8,394,20],"tags":[1804,724,2327],"class_list":["post-16032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-history","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-brent-staples","tag-randall-kennedy","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16032","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=16032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45854,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16032\/revisions\/45854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}