{"id":25229,"date":"2012-09-07T00:40:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T00:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25229"},"modified":"2012-09-07T00:40:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T00:40:33","slug":"such-an-encounter-becomes-a-source-of-discomfort-and-momentarily-a-crisis-of-racial-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25229","title":{"rendered":"Such an encounter becomes a source of discomfort and momentarily a crisis of racial meaning."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One of the first things we notice about people when we meet them (along with their sex) is their race. We utilize race to provide clues about who a person is. This fact is made painfully clear when we encounter someone whom we cannot conveniently racially categorize\u2014someone who is for example, racially \u2018\u2018mixed\u2019\u2019 or of an ethnic\/racial group we are not familiar with. Such an encounter becomes a source of discomfort and momentarily a crisis of racial meaning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Michael Omi and Howard Winant, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4221\" target=\"_blank\">Racial formation in the United States from the 1960s to the 1990s<\/a><\/em>, (New York and London: Routledge, 1994), 59.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first things we notice about people when we meet them (along with their sex) is their race. We utilize race to provide clues about who a person is. This fact is made painfully clear when we encounter someone whom we cannot conveniently racially categorize\u2014someone who is for example, racially \u2018\u2018mixed\u2019\u2019 or of [&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":[1412,499],"class_list":["post-25229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-howard-winant","tag-michael-omi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25229","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=25229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}