{"id":38469,"date":"2014-11-23T20:50:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T20:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38469"},"modified":"2014-11-23T20:52:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T20:52:51","slug":"branden-jacobs-jenkins-is-and-is-not-writing-about-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38469","title":{"rendered":"bell hooks, Rethinking Everything, and Colorism \u2013 Hidden Power of Words Series, #13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewpegoda.com\/2014\/11\/22\/bell-hooks-rethinking-everything-and-colorism-hidden-power-of-words-series-13\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>bell hooks, Rethinking Everything, and Colorism \u2013 Hidden Power of Words Series, #13<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewpegoda.com\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Joseph Pegoda, A.B.D.<\/a><br \/>\n2014-11-22<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pegodaaj\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Andrew Joseph Pegoda<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDepartment of History<br \/>\n<em>University of Houston, Houston, Texas<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bell_hooks\" target=\"_blank\">bell hooks<\/a> continues to transform my thinking and understanding of all things related to critical theory and History. I have completely fallen in love with her conceptualization of the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I was listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tkzOFvfWRn4&amp;spfreload=10\" target=\"_blank\">this talk<\/a> (which is excellent!) between hooks and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gloria_Steinem\" target=\"_blank\">Gloria Steinem<\/a>, and the word \u201ccolorism\u201d caught my attention. \u201cColorism\u201d is not a word I had heard before, but it sounded intriguing. One of the things I love about learning is that you are always learning something new, and in this case, something that \u201cmakes so much sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A search on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_Search\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> does not reveal any substantial results, but the basic idea that colorism is discrimination based on the hue of a person\u2019s skin (similar to but different than phenotype) was clear and is, potentially, a revolutionary concept for my thinking, writing, and teaching.<\/p>\n<p>Given how much scholars in the Liberal Arts preach that race is a social construction, not a biological reality; that race does not exist but racism does exist, students frequently say, with full sincerity, how can we have racism if race does not exist. Or, they will say, \u201cclearly we all have different skin colors, how do you \u201cexplain\u201d that away.\u201d For a while, I learned to frame this with the following explanation: No one is white or black, <strong>but they can be and are racialized as White or Black&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewpegoda.com\/2014\/11\/22\/bell-hooks-rethinking-everything-and-colorism-hidden-power-of-words-series-13\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bell hooks, Rethinking Everything, and Colorism \u2013 Hidden Power of Words Series, #13 Andrew Joseph Pegoda, A.B.D. 2014-11-22 Andrew Joseph Pegoda Department of History University of Houston, Houston, Texas bell hooks continues to transform my thinking and understanding of all things related to critical theory and History. I have completely fallen in love with her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,24,8,394],"tags":[16439,9516],"class_list":["post-38469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-andrew-joseph-pegoda","tag-bell-hooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38469","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=38469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}