{"id":22330,"date":"2012-04-09T15:13:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T15:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22330"},"modified":"2012-04-09T15:13:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T15:13:13","slug":"i-do-choose-to-run-personal-boxes-and-the-ethics-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22330","title":{"rendered":"I Do Choose To Run: Personal boxes and the ethics of race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2012\/04\/09\/i-do-choose-to-run-personal-boxes-and-the-ethics-of-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">I Do Choose To Run: Personal boxes and the ethics of race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Stanford Daily<\/a><br \/>\n2012-04-09<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:milesu1@stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Miles Unterreiner<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an eloquently argued <em>New York Times<\/em> Sunday Review article on March 16th, entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=21529\" target=\"_blank\">As Black as We Wish to Be<\/a>,\u201d author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaschattertonwilliams.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Chatterton Williams<\/a> advances a provocative and thought-provoking argument: \u201cmixed-race blacks have an ethical obligation to identify as black \u2014 and interracial couples share a similar moral imperative to inculcate certain ideas of black heritage and racial identity in their mixed-race children, regardless of how they look.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIs this a good argument? Do mixed-race individuals have an ethical obligation to identify as members of one race, rather than many or none? And is there a special obligation in the case of mixed-race African-Americans, given this country\u2019s long history of racial discrimination?<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI must respectfully disagree with Mr. Williams and answer all three with \u201cno.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire opinion piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2012\/04\/09\/i-do-choose-to-run-personal-boxes-and-the-ethics-of-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Do Choose To Run: Personal boxes and the ethics of race The Stanford Daily 2012-04-09 Miles Unterreiner In an eloquently argued New York Times Sunday Review article on March 16th, entitled \u201cAs Black as We Wish to Be,\u201d author Thomas Chatterton Williams advances a provocative and thought-provoking argument: \u201cmixed-race blacks have an ethical obligation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,6,394,20],"tags":[10356,10357,2772,4725],"class_list":["post-22330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-miles-unterreiner","tag-stanford-daily","tag-the-stanford-daily","tag-thomas-chatterton-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22330","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=22330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}