{"id":27886,"date":"2013-01-27T03:53:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T03:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27886"},"modified":"2013-01-27T03:53:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T03:53:14","slug":"so-possibly-the-question-could-more-precisely-be-phrased-as-%e2%80%9cwhat-part-of-you-is-black%e2%80%9d-not-%e2%80%9cwhere-are-you-from%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27886","title":{"rendered":"So possibly the question could more precisely be phrased as \u201cWhat part of you is black?\u201d Not, \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Perhaps you are all familiar with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cone drop\u201d philosophy<\/a>, adopted by American slave owners. Essentially, as long as an individual had even one drop of African blood, that individual was considered Black, regardless of what could sometimes be a very mixed lineage. Well, the \u201cone drop\u201d concept is, in some ways, alive and well today and is the unspoken subtext that spurs someone to ask \u201cWhat are you,\u201d when I am clearly and visibly something other than white. So possibly the question could more precisely be phrased as \u201cWhat part of you is black?\u201d Not, \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d After all, when I truthfully answer with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guelph\" target=\"_blank\">Guelph, Ontario<\/a>, no one is never satisfied!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Araba Ocran-Caesar, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=27329\" target=\"_blank\">1.1 But Where are You Really From? Part IV: Oh, really? You were born in Guelph?<\/a>,\u201d <em>Schema Magazine<\/em>, (August 3, 2009). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schemamag.ca\/indepth\/2009\/08\/feature-ocran-caesar.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.schemamag.ca\/indepth\/2009\/08\/feature-ocran-caesar.php<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you are all familiar with the \u201cone drop\u201d philosophy, adopted by American slave owners. Essentially, as long as an individual had even one drop of African blood, that individual was considered Black, regardless of what could sometimes be a very mixed lineage. Well, the \u201cone drop\u201d concept is, in some ways, alive and well [&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":[13286],"class_list":["post-27886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-araba-ocran-caesar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27886","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=27886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}