{"id":24664,"date":"2012-08-05T03:47:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T03:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24664"},"modified":"2012-08-05T03:47:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T03:47:08","slug":"but-the-primary-reason-these-ancestry-stories-entrance-us-is-because-they-bring-us-face-to-face-with-our-national-fascination-with-and-anxieties-about-racial-miscegenation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24664","title":{"rendered":"But the primary reason these ancestry stories entrance us is because they bring us face-to-face with our national fascination with and anxieties about racial miscegenation."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We have a high threshold for political gossip and, in the digital age, genealogy is a fast fad that shows no sign of passing out of vogue. But the primary reason these ancestry stories entrance us is because they bring us face-to-face with our national fascination with and anxieties about racial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alondra Nelson, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=24603\" target=\"_blank\">Obama is a Descendant of Nefertiti &amp; Confucius Too<\/a>,\u201d <em>Dominion of New York<\/em>, July 31, 2012. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dominionofnewyork.com\/2012\/07\/31\/obama-is-a-descendant-of-nefertiti-confucius-too\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dominionofnewyork.com\/2012\/07\/31\/obama-is-a-descendant-of-nefertiti-confucius-too\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a high threshold for political gossip and, in the digital age, genealogy is a fast fad that shows no sign of passing out of vogue. But the primary reason these ancestry stories entrance us is because they bring us face-to-face with our national fascination with and anxieties about racial miscegenation. Alondra Nelson, \u201cObama [&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":[2087],"class_list":["post-24664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-alondra-nelson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24664","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=24664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}