{"id":30502,"date":"2013-04-19T20:57:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T20:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30502"},"modified":"2015-04-06T00:01:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T00:01:08","slug":"critical-race-theory-and-christianity-race-is-a-social-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30502","title":{"rendered":"Critical Race Theory and Christianity: Race Is A Social Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusforrevolutionaries.org\/critical-race-theory-and-christianity-race-is-a-social-construction\/\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Race Theory and Christianity: Race Is A Social Construction<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusforrevolutionaries.org\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus For Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity<\/a><br \/>\n2013-04-16<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:robertchaoromero@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Chao Romero<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Chicana\/o Studies and Asian American Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Good morning.\u00a0 It\u2019s taken me a little longer than usual to write this new post, but I have a good reason.\u00a0 I just got back from a wonderful birthday celebration with my wife!\u00a0 One of my gifts to her\u2014no blog writing this weekend!<\/p>\n<p>Last week we began a new series on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Critical_race_theory\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Race Theory<\/a> and Christianity.\u00a0 Our first topic was \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusforrevolutionaries.org\/critical-race-theory-and-christianity-part-i-racism-is-ordinary\/\" target=\"_blank\">Racism is Ordinary<\/a>.\u201d <em>This week\u2019s theme is,<\/em> <em>\u201cRace is a Social Construction.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Critical Race Theory (CRT), <em>\u201crace\u201d is a social construction.\u00a0 I.e., race is something that human beings invented.<\/em>\u00a0 <em>We invented race as a way of dividing up people from different ethnic backgrounds so that we could give special rights and privileges to some, and deny them to others.<\/em> \u00a0The racial categories we create, moreover, do not correspond to true biological and genetic differences among human cultural populations.\u00a0 They are <em>socially constructed&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusforrevolutionaries.org\/critical-race-theory-and-christianity-race-is-a-social-construction\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critical Race Theory and Christianity: Race Is A Social Construction Jesus For Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2013-04-16 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana\/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Good morning.\u00a0 It\u2019s taken me a little longer than usual to write this new post, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,820,394],"tags":[13291,9291,1735,9290],"class_list":["post-30502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-socialscience","tag-jesus-for-revolutionaries","tag-robert-c-romero","tag-robert-chao-romero","tag-robert-romero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30502","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=30502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}