{"id":30490,"date":"2013-04-18T03:18:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T03:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30490"},"modified":"2013-04-18T03:18:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T03:18:53","slug":"owning-my-whiteness-becoming-an-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30490","title":{"rendered":"Owning my Whiteness, Becoming an Ally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/theracecardproject.com\/owning-my-whiteness-becoming-an-ally\/\" target=\"_blank\">Owning my Whiteness, Becoming an Ally<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theracecardproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Race Card Project: Six-Word Essays<\/a><br \/>\nBy Michele Norris<br \/>\n2013-04-17<\/p>\n<p><strong>Becky Christensen<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Ann Arbor, MI<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite growing up in a somewhat racially diverse area in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Francisco_Bay_Area\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Bay Area<\/a>, I had never thought about the privileges I had based on being White until I read <a href=\"http:\/\/ted.coe.wayne.edu\/ele3600\/mcintosh.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peggy McIntosh\u2019s<\/a> \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcwonline.org\/Active-Researchers\/peggy-mcintosh-phd\" target=\"_blank\">White: Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack<\/a>\u201d in graduate school. Since then, I\u2019ve been actively exploring and acknowledging my Whiteness and am involved with social justice efforts on campus to help others become aware of their own racial identities as well as the systems of power and oppression in our society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owning my Whiteness, Becoming an Ally The Race Card Project: Six-Word Essays By Michele Norris 2013-04-17 Becky Christensen Ann Arbor, MI Despite growing up in a somewhat racially diverse area in the San Francisco Bay Area, I had never thought about the privileges I had based on being White until I read Peggy McIntosh\u2019s \u201cWhite: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,394,20],"tags":[14434,2344,1162,14257,14256],"class_list":["post-30490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-becky-christensen","tag-michele-norris","tag-peggy-mcintosh","tag-the-race-card-project","tag-the-race-card-project-six-word-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30490","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=30490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}