{"id":27929,"date":"2013-01-29T05:08:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T05:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27929"},"modified":"2014-11-25T21:15:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T21:15:50","slug":"i-think-it%e2%80%99s-important-for-everyone-to-know-that-neither-racism-nor-race-are-stable-or-natural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27929","title":{"rendered":"I think it\u2019s important for everyone to know that neither racism nor race are stable or natural."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I think it\u2019s important for everyone to know that neither racism nor race are stable or natural. Racism metastasizes and changes over time, changing the ways that race is thought about and implemented in the US. For the last few decades, the Census has been one way to try to observe and track the symptoms of racial inequalities. For example, we can use the data to determine whether a racial group is disproportionately imprisoned or denied access to equitable bank loans. Without such data, it\u2019s difficult to demonstrate racist trends.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Eric Hamako<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Steven F. Riley, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=27794\" target=\"_blank\">A Conversation with Eric Hamako<\/a>,\u201d <em>MixedRaceStudies.org<\/em>, (January 23, 2013). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=27794\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=27794<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it\u2019s important for everyone to know that neither racism nor race are stable or natural. Racism metastasizes and changes over time, changing the ways that race is thought about and implemented in the US. For the last few decades, the Census has been one way to try to observe and track the symptoms [&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":[1525],"class_list":["post-27929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-eric-hamako"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27929","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=27929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}