{"id":16488,"date":"2011-10-27T19:06:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16488"},"modified":"2012-02-11T06:17:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T06:17:32","slug":"new-categories-listings-for-mixedracestudies-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16488","title":{"rendered":"New Categories Listings for MixedRaceStudies.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>New Categories Listings for MixedRaceStudies.org<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2011-10-02<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:steven@stevenriley.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Steven F. Riley<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the next few days, I will be removing three frequently used tags (indexed items) and converting them\u00a0into categories (which are listed on the right-hand side).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.ucsb.edu\/faculty\/g-reginald-daniel\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. G. Reginald Daniel<\/a> for letting me flush out my ideas with him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Slavery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over three centuries of human bondage of peoples of African decent in the Americas has and continues to have an immense impact on the lives of people of color today.\u00a0 At the time of the first recorded, black\/white \u201cmixed-race\u201d birth in 1620, according to historian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.has.vcu.edu\/soc\/smedley.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Audrey Smedley<\/a>, \u201cthe concept of race did not exist.\u201d In the American colonies, the institutionalization of slavery necessitated the creation of laws that would attempt to prevent the unions between African and European colonists.\u00a0 It is perhaps not a stretch to state that without slavery there would be no \u201crace,\u201d and of course, no \u201cmixed-race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?cat=83\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because of the long history of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a>\u00a0in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a>, the country is often thought of\u2014erroneously\u2014as a racial democracy.\u00a0 This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/index.php?s=brazil+racial+democracy+myth&amp;cat=0\" target=\"_blank\">well-documented myth<\/a>.\u00a0 As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=16190\" target=\"_blank\">Joan R. Dassin puts it<\/a>, \u201cTraditionally celebrated in Brazil as the means to ensure the tranquil mingling of the Portuguese, indigenous, and African races, miscegenation has long been glorified as the basis of the \u201ccordial\u201d national character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?cat=63\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I created this site in early 2009 in anticipation of an increased number of discourses surrounding multiraciality (and race)\u00a0as a direct result of the election of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a>, the first black president of the United States.\u00a0I was not disappointed.\u00a0What I did not anticipate though, was the the sheer number of discourses <em>about<\/em> Obama not just ones inspired <em>by<\/em> Obama.\u00a0 As reluctant as I am to add a <em>person<\/em> as a category, the influence of Barack Obama cannot be dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Categories Listings for MixedRaceStudies.org 2011-10-02 Steven F. Riley Over the next few days, I will be removing three frequently used tags (indexed items) and converting them\u00a0into categories (which are listed on the right-hand side). Thanks to\u00a0Dr. G. Reginald Daniel for letting me flush out my ideas with him. Slavery Over three centuries of human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-pov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16488","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=16488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}