{"id":34765,"date":"2013-11-17T03:35:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T03:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34765"},"modified":"2013-11-17T03:35:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T03:35:06","slug":"white-mayor-black-wife-bill-de-blasio-and-chirlane-mccray-shatter-an-image-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34765","title":{"rendered":"White mayor, black wife: Bill de Blasio and Chirlane McCray shatter an image in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/232190351.html\" target=\"_blank\">White mayor, black wife: Bill de Blasio and Chirlane McCray shatter an image in New York City<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\" target=\"_blank\">Minneapolis Star-Tribune<\/a><br \/>\n2013-11-16<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessewashington.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Washington<\/a><\/strong>, National Writer\/Race and Ethnicity<br \/>\n<em>The Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another milestone is passing in America&#8217;s racial journey: The next mayor of New York City is a white man with a black wife.<\/p>\n<p>Even in a nation with a biracial president, where interracial marriage is more accepted and common than ever, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_de_Blasio\" target=\"_blank\">Bill de Blasio&#8217;s<\/a> marriage to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chirlane_McCray\" target=\"_blank\">Chirlane McCray<\/a> is remarkable: He is apparently the first white politician in U.S. history elected to a major office with a black spouse by his side.<\/p>\n<p>This simple fact is striking a deep chord in many people as de Blasio prepares to take office on Jan. 1, with McCray playing a major role in his administration&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/232190351.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White mayor, black wife: Bill de Blasio and Chirlane McCray shatter an image in New York City Minneapolis Star-Tribune 2013-11-16 Jesse Washington, National Writer\/Race and Ethnicity The Associated Press Another milestone is passing in America&#8217;s racial journey: The next mayor of New York City is a white man with a black wife. Even in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,20],"tags":[2822,15381,16390,2823,16389,2711,596],"class_list":["post-34765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-associated-press","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-chirlane-mccray","tag-jesse-washington","tag-minneapolis-star-tribune","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34765","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=34765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}