{"id":21,"date":"2009-06-14T02:07:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T02:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=21"},"modified":"2013-08-27T05:05:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T05:05:28","slug":"thinking-about-trancending-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Multiracial ideology, like the monoracial ideology it depends on, is a false consciousness."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Multiracial ideology, like the monoracial ideology it depends on, is a false consciousness. The frustration its adherents feel would be better directed at criticizing the American racial paradigm itself rather than at attempting to modify the paradigm&#8217;s configuration.\u00a0 A modified paradigm, one containing a multi-racial category, would be a fallacious as one without a multiracial category.\u00a0 As long as the idea of race has legitimacy, and as long as the racial hierarchy remains undisturbed, nothing will really change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Rainier Spencer, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylorandfrancis.com\/shopping_cart\/products\/product_detail.asp?sku=&amp;ppid=218589&amp;isbn=9780415321648\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Race Studies: A Reader<\/a><\/em>, Chapter 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiracial ideology, like the monoracial ideology it depends on, is a false consciousness. The frustration its adherents feel would be better directed at criticizing the American racial paradigm itself rather than at attempting to modify the paradigm&#8217;s configuration.\u00a0 A modified paradigm, one containing a multi-racial category, would be a fallacious as one without a multiracial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-rainier-spencer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","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=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}