{"id":33940,"date":"2013-09-30T18:21:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T18:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33940"},"modified":"2016-12-27T15:33:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T15:33:58","slug":"blackness-also-points-to-a-history-of-mixed-racialization-that-although-always-acknowledged-among-blacks-is-rarely-understood-or-seen-among-other-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33940","title":{"rendered":"But blackness also points to a history of mixed racialization that, although always acknowledged among blacks, is rarely understood or seen among other groups."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But blackness also points to a history of mixed racialization that, although always acknowledged among blacks, is rarely understood or seen among other groups. I have argued elsewhere, for instance, that to add the claim of \u201cmixture\u201d to blacks in both American continents would be redundant, because blacks are their primary \u201cmixed\u201d populations to begin with. Mixture among blacks, in particular, functions as an organizing aesthetic, as well as a tragic history. On the aesthetic level, it signifies the divide between beauty and ugliness. On the social level, the divide is between being just and unjust, virtuous and vicious; \u201cfair skin\u201d is no accidental, alternative term for \u201clight skin.\u201d And on the historical level, the divide signifies concerns that often are denied.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lewis R. Gordon, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=21108\" target=\"_blank\">Her Majesty&#8217;s Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age<\/a><\/em> (Lanham: Rowman &amp; Littlefield, 1997). 57.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But blackness also points to a history of mixed racialization that, although always acknowledged among blacks, is rarely understood or seen among other groups. I have argued elsewhere, for instance, that to add the claim of \u201cmixture\u201d to blacks in both American continents would be redundant, because blacks are their primary \u201cmixed\u201d populations to begin [&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":[6520,1357,9906,367],"class_list":["post-33940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-lewis-gordon","tag-lewis-r-gordon","tag-lewis-ricardo-gordon","tag-rowman-littlefield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33940","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=33940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42089,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33940\/revisions\/42089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}