{"id":20030,"date":"2012-01-21T21:20:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T21:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20030"},"modified":"2012-01-21T21:20:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T21:20:58","slug":"for-black-americans-multi-racialism-is-not-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20030","title":{"rendered":"For black Americans, multi-racialism is not new"},"content":{"rendered":"

For black Americans, multi-racialism is not new<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Daily Voice<\/a>
\n2008-12-17<\/p>\n

Sitafa Harden<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clearly President-elect Barack Obama<\/a>, the son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, is multi-racial. The only question is what’s so new about that?<\/p>\n

In a recent article<\/a>, AP race and ethnicity writer Jesse Washington<\/a> explored the issue of multi-racialism brought to a head by this year’s presidential election.
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\nHe wrote, “The candidate Obama, in achieving what many thought impossible, was treated differently from previous black generations. And many white and mixed-race people now view President-elect Obama as something other than black.”
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\nBut the story of the existence of multi-racial Americans is a story as old as the country itself.<\/strong>\u00a0 The saga is particularly poignant for black Americans whose mixed-race heritage often harkens back to slavery times…<\/p>\n

…”Today, the spectrum of skin tones among African-Americans\u2014even those with two black parents\u2014is evidence of widespread white ancestry. Also, since blacks were sometimes light enough to pass for white, unknown numbers of white Americans today have blacks hidden in their family trees<\/strong>,” Washington acknowledged.
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\nMy own family is no exception. My great-grandmother Flora was born to a black mother and a Cherokee Native American father.\u00a0 My great-grandfather’s mom was also black. His father was white.
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\nSo far I could check at least three boxes on a U.S. Census form.\u00a0 And that’s just based on the three generations of family history I know about. The injustices of slavery obliterated the rest…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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