{"id":29364,"date":"2013-03-07T04:22:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T04:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29364"},"modified":"2013-03-07T04:22:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T04:22:26","slug":"the-demand-for-statistical-recognition-of-mixed-race-persons%e2%80%94and-acknowledgement-of-all-aspects-of-an-individuals-racial-identity%e2%80%94is-occurring-within-a-sociopolitical-context-that-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29364","title":{"rendered":"the demand for statistical recognition of mixed-race persons\u2014and acknowledgement of all aspects of an individual&#8217;s racial identity\u2014is occurring within a sociopolitical context that values White ancestry and denigrates non-White ancestry."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Accordingly, the demand for statistical recognition of mixed-race persons\u2014and acknowledgement of all aspects of an individual&#8217;s racial identity\u2014is occurring within a sociopolitical context that values White ancestry and denigrates non-White ancestry. In such a racial caste system, it is impossible to acknowledge mixed-race persons officially without actually elevating the status of those who can claim to be other than \u201cpure\u201d Black, no matter how egalitarian the intent of the MCM [Multiracial Category Movement]. This same elevation of mixed-race classes is evident in various Latin American countries and in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apartheid_in_South_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">apartheid<\/a> South Africa in ways that powerfully illuminate the implications of furthering multiracial discourse in the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tanya Kater\u00ed Hern\u00e1ndez, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=29353\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Multiracial\u2019 Discourse: Racial Classifications in an Era of Color-blind Jurisprudence<\/a>,\u201d <em>Maryland Law Review<\/em>, Volume 57, Issue 1 (1998): 121. <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu\/mlr\/vol57\/iss1\/5\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu\/mlr\/vol57\/iss1\/5\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accordingly, the demand for statistical recognition of mixed-race persons\u2014and acknowledgement of all aspects of an individual&#8217;s racial identity\u2014is occurring within a sociopolitical context that values White ancestry and denigrates non-White ancestry. In such a racial caste system, it is impossible to acknowledge mixed-race persons officially without actually elevating the status of those who can claim [&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":[12226,2113,5161,2112],"class_list":["post-29364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-maryland-law-review","tag-tanya-hernandez","tag-tanya-k-hernandez","tag-tanya-kateri-hernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29364","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=29364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}