{"id":19947,"date":"2012-01-18T18:06:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T18:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19947"},"modified":"2016-03-01T01:43:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T01:43:07","slug":"when-we-see-a-black-body-embodying-the-american-state-and-particularly-a-black-body-that-didnt-have-to-be-black%e2%80%94that-could-have-chose-some-other-kind-of-intersectional-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19947","title":{"rendered":"When we see a black body embodying the American state, and particularly a black body that didn&#8217;t have to be black\u2014that could have chose some other kind of intersectional identity&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When we see a black body [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a>]\u00a0embodying the American state, and particularly a black body that didn&#8217;t have to be black\u2014that could have chose some other kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intersectionality\" target=\"_blank\">intersectional<\/a> identity. And was no, \u201cI&#8217;m black.\u201d On his census form, \u201cI&#8217;m black.\u201d And then married <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle<\/a> who looked black from way over there and got regular hair; and had some little black baby girls and braided their hair up; and then lived on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Side_(Chicago)\" target=\"_blank\">South Side of Chicago<\/a>; and hung out with some black people; and just, \u201cblack, black, black, black, black.\u201d Over and over again. And so it <em>means<\/em> something to us&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Melissa Harris-Perry<\/strong>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=blX2YHdqUJA\" target=\"_blank\">Sister Citizen: Shame Stereotypes and Black Women in America<\/a>,\u201d <em>Walter H. Capps Center Series Lecture<\/em>,\u00a0 University of California, Santa Barbara, October 4, 2011: (00:55:20-00:56:00). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=blX2YHdqUJA\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=blX2YHdqUJA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we see a black body [President Barack Obama]\u00a0embodying the American state, and particularly a black body that didn&#8217;t have to be black\u2014that could have chose some other kind of intersectional identity. And was no, \u201cI&#8217;m black.\u201d On his census form, \u201cI&#8217;m black.\u201d And then married Michelle who looked black from way over there and [&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":[6477],"class_list":["post-19947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-melissa-harris-perry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19947","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=19947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45838,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19947\/revisions\/45838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}