{"id":30264,"date":"2013-04-09T16:50:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T16:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30264"},"modified":"2013-04-10T14:25:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T14:25:05","slug":"race-is-a-true-lie-and-a-social-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30264","title":{"rendered":"Race is a true lie and a social construction."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Race is a true lie and a social construction. The meaning of race, and how different people are located within its shifting boundaries and categories, is a function of the politics of the moment, and the type of &#8220;social work&#8221; that race does in a given society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chauncey DeVega, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/he-really-wants-to-be-brown-bag-test.html\" target=\"_blank\">He Really Just Wants to be the \u2018Brown Paper Bag Test Referee\u2019 for Black Folks: Ironically, Tim Graham is More Right Than Wrong in His Insight About Karen Finney and the One-Drop Rule<\/a>,\u201d <em>We Are Respectable Negroes: Happy Non-Threatening Coloured Folks, Even in the Age of Obama<\/em>. (April 3, 2013). <a href=\"http:\/\/wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/he-really-wants-to-be-brown-bag-test.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/he-really-wants-to-be-brown-bag-test.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race is a true lie and a social construction. The meaning of race, and how different people are located within its shifting boundaries and categories, is a function of the politics of the moment, and the type of &#8220;social work&#8221; that race does in a given society. Chauncey DeVega, \u201cHe Really Just Wants to be [&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":[10174,12655],"class_list":["post-30264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-chauncey-devega","tag-we-are-respectable-negroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30264","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=30264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}