{"id":35828,"date":"2014-02-13T02:54:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T02:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35828"},"modified":"2015-02-06T01:10:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T01:10:13","slug":"biracial-and-also-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35828","title":{"rendered":"Biracial, and also black"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biracial, and also black<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Cable News Network<\/a> (CNN)
\n2014-02-12<\/p>\n

Martha S. Jones<\/strong><\/a>, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History
\nUniversity of Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n

(CNN) — My winter 2010 seminar began the way I start every class. I made introductory remarks about themes and requirements for my course on the history of race, law and marriage in the United States.<\/p>\n

“Now,” I prompted, “let’s go around. Tell us about yourself and why you chose this course.”<\/p>\n

This introduction was routine. But what I heard was anything but the norm: “My mother is black and my father is white.” “I’m in an interracial relationship.”<\/p>\n

Ordinarily, I am silent, listening and taking notes. But by the time I heard a third student say “I am mixed-race, from a mixed race family,” I had set down my notebook and was perched at the edge of my seat.<\/p>\n

“Me, too,” I heard myself say. And with that, I knew that the class would be anything but routine. Until that moment, I had always told a neater story about my identity. I was, simply put, black. And about my mother being white? That had been irrelevant for me and my “one drop rule<\/a>” generation.<\/p>\n

My students had another perspective…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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