{"id":30769,"date":"2013-05-02T17:31:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T17:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30769"},"modified":"2014-12-19T15:43:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:43:40","slug":"race-works-through-a-type-of-%e2%80%9ccommon-sense%e2%80%9d-that-is-based-on-individual-experiences-cultural-norms-misunderstandings-of-history-the-law-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30769","title":{"rendered":"Race works through a type of \u201ccommon sense\u201d that is based on individual experiences, cultural norms, (misunderstandings of) history, the law, politics&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Race works through a type of \u201ccommon sense\u201d that is based on individual experiences, cultural norms, (misunderstandings of) history, the law, politics, as well as psychological motivations and decision-making that operate on both a conscious and subconscious level. In total, the race business is a type of magic and pseudo-science. This makes it no less real or important.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chauncey DeVega, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=30699\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018I Thought He was White You Know a Regular American\u2019: The Boston Marathon Bombing Shows Us How White Privilege Hurts White People\u2026 Again<\/a>,\u201d <em>We Are Respectable Negroes<\/em>, (April 19, 2013). <a href=\"http:\/\/wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/i-thought-he-was-white-you-know-regular.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/i-thought-he-was-white-you-know-regular.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race works through a type of \u201ccommon sense\u201d that is based on individual experiences, cultural norms, (misunderstandings of) history, the law, politics, as well as psychological motivations and decision-making that operate on both a conscious and subconscious level. In total, the race business is a type of magic and pseudo-science. This makes it no less [&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-30769","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\/30769","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=30769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}