{"id":25813,"date":"2012-10-07T01:34:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T01:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25813"},"modified":"2012-11-17T03:06:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T03:06:32","slug":"the-durability-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25813","title":{"rendered":"The Durability of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.changelabinfo.com\/2012\/10\/05\/the-durability-of-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Durability of Race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.changelabinfo.com\/racefiles\" target=\"_blank\">RaceFiles: On Race and Racism in our Politics and Daily Lives<\/a><br \/>\n2012-10-05<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.changelabinfo.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scot Nakagawa<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Partner<br \/>\n<em>ChangeLab<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s been a lot of talk lately about the death of racism. Many believe that as the global demographics change and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Generation_Y\" target=\"_blank\">Generation Y<\/a> rises, racism will fade in significance. Some even suggest that what we are witnessing in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Obama<\/a> backlash is just death throes.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThat argument ignores history.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHere\u2019s what I mean.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNeither the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emancipation_Proclamation\" target=\"_blank\">Emancipation Proclamation<\/a> nor the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abolitionism\" target=\"_blank\">abolitionist movement<\/a> were enough to end slavery. Slavery was defeated in a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War<\/a> that was fought not over race equality nor just for the cuase of freeing slaves, but over federal authority. The cynicism at the root of the \u201cwar against slavery\u201d is revealed by the fact that when legal race slavery was finally defeated in 1865, <strong>the culture of\u00a0 white supremacy survived, both in the North and the South.<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSouthern state governments, determined to maintain white supremacy, pivoted after the war and took advantage of an exception in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution\" target=\"_blank\">13th Amendment<\/a> that allowed for the indentured servitude of criminals. They created a set of legal codes that criminalized Black people. Crimes included changing employers without permission,vagrancy, and selling cotton after sunset.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOnce imprisoned, African Americans were subjected to neo-slavery in the form of labor camps and chain gangs. But the impact of neo-slavery was not just on those enslaved. The system terrorized Blacks throughout the South keeping them subjugated to white employers who in many cases were their former masters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.changelabinfo.com\/2012\/10\/05\/the-durability-of-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Durability of Race RaceFiles: On Race and Racism in our Politics and Daily Lives 2012-10-05 Scot Nakagawa, Senior Partner ChangeLab There\u2019s been a lot of talk lately about the death of racism. Many believe that as the global demographics change and Generation Y rises, racism will fade in significance. Some even suggest that what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,394,20],"tags":[12742,12743,10674],"class_list":["post-25813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-racefiles","tag-racefiles-on-race-and-racism-in-our-politics-and-daily-lives","tag-scot-nakagawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25813","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=25813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}