{"id":28788,"date":"2013-02-17T19:23:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T19:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=28788"},"modified":"2013-02-17T19:23:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T19:23:10","slug":"the-last-plantation-color-conflict-and-identity-reflections-of-a-new-world-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=28788","title":{"rendered":"The Last Plantation: Color, Conflict, and Identity: Reflections of a New World Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Last-Plantation-Conflict-Reflections\/dp\/0395771919\" target=\"_blank\">The Last Plantation: Color, Conflict, and Identity: Reflections of a New World Black<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Houghton Mifflin<br \/>\n1997-02-10<br \/>\n307 pages<br \/>\nHardback ISBN-10: 0395771919; ISBN-13: 978-0395771914<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Itabari_Njeri\" target=\"_blank\">Itabari Njeri<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Last-Plantation-Conflict-Reflections\/dp\/0395771919\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41BPZYPNKAL._SY300_.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the 1980s, when most Americans considered &#8220;black&#8221; a racial reference, many multiracial people began to see themselves as part of a heterogeneous ethnic group linked by history, culture, and blood\u2014a distinction that has led to considerable conflict. Prompted by the comment &#8220;You look like an ordinary Negro to me,&#8221; Itabari Njeri, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir <em>Every Good-Bye Ain&#8217;t Gone<\/em> and a reporter for the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>, decided to take a look at her own family in order to explore racism within her community. What she discovered is disturbing. Referring to incidents in the news\u2014the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rodney_King\" target=\"_blank\">Rodney King<\/a> beating, the black boycott of Korean grocers in Los Angeles, the killing of a black teenager by a Korean immigrant\u2014as well as to her family, Njeri lays out with precision and power how limited racial definitions contribute to the psychological slavery that makes the mind the last plantation. She provides telling evidence that the recognition of a larger, multiracial identity\u2014which would substantially define most Americans\u2014we can challenge marginalizing concepts and the way in which the racial debate is now framed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Plantation: Color, Conflict, and Identity: Reflections of a New World Black Houghton Mifflin 1997-02-10 307 pages Hardback ISBN-10: 0395771919; ISBN-13: 978-0395771914 Itabari Njeri In the 1980s, when most Americans considered &#8220;black&#8221; a racial reference, many multiracial people began to see themselves as part of a heterogeneous ethnic group linked by history, culture, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,17,394,20],"tags":[13687,13686],"class_list":["post-28788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-houghton-mifflin","tag-itabari-njeri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28788","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=28788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}