{"id":25666,"date":"2012-09-30T03:09:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T03:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25666"},"modified":"2012-09-30T03:09:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T03:09:16","slug":"%e2%80%9cwait-they-had-a-white-baby%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25666","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWait . . . they had a white baby?!?!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.murphyshigematsu.com\/2012\/09\/01\/wait-they-had-a-white-baby\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWait . . . they had a white baby?!?!\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.murphyshigematsu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu<\/a><br \/>\n2012-09-01<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.murphyshigematsu.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Stanford University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My niece recently had a baby, a beautiful boy. The proud grandmother showed the photo of the newborn to family members and everyone oohed and aahed. One of his cousins looked at the picture and said, \u201cOh he\u2019s so cute!\u201d\u00a0 But suddenly a puzzled look came over him and he blurted out, \u201cWait . . . they had a white baby?!?!<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWhen I heard this story I thought, Oh, it\u2019s already started. People see colors and label according to what they see. The little cousin saw white and labeled the baby white. But mom is Japanese as well as Irish and Scottish. Dad is Irish as well as African American and American Indian. The baby is therefore all of these. But he is already being labeled by a single category, a race.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAnd he is already being looked at in relation to his family. The little cousin was intrigued\u00a0 because to him mom is probably white and dad black, so put black and white together and what do you get? A white baby?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.murphyshigematsu.com\/2012\/09\/01\/wait-they-had-a-white-baby\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWait . . . they had a white baby?!?!\u201d Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 2012-09-01 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University My niece recently had a baby, a beautiful boy. The proud grandmother showed the photo of the newborn to family members and everyone oohed and aahed. One of his cousins looked at the picture and said, \u201cOh he\u2019s so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8,394],"tags":[512],"class_list":["post-25666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-stephen-murphy-shigematsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25666","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=25666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}