{"id":38509,"date":"2014-11-25T22:30:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T22:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38509"},"modified":"2014-11-26T00:23:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T00:23:57","slug":"weve-sexualised-or-pornographied-mixed-race-its-a-very-narrow-line-between-exoticisation-and-sexualisation-fetishisms-where-you-turn-all-non-white-people-into-people-who-ex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38509","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve sexualised or pornographied mixed race. It\u2019s a very narrow line between exoticisation and sexualisation, fetishisms\u2014where you turn all non-white people into people who exist simply into your own pleasure."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019ve sexualised or pornographied mixed race. It\u2019s a very narrow line between exoticisation and sexualisation, fetishisms\u2014where you turn all non-white people into people who exist simply into your own pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>She said that \u201ca person who is half white is more \u201cpalatable\u201d and acceptable in society \u2013 an idea, she believed, is steeped in racism and prevalent since colonisation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColonialism has circulated the idea that white is best. White is at the top of a kind of hierarchy of humanity\u2026 If you believe there is a hierarchy of races, which is what racism is about, a little bit of white is more palatable,\u201d\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adelaide.edu.au\/directory\/julie.matthews\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Julie Matthews<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lin Taylor, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=38385\" target=\"_blank\">How far have we come in our acceptance of mixed race people?<\/a>,\u201d <em>Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)<\/em>, November 14, 2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/article\/2014\/11\/10\/how-far-have-we-come-our-acceptance-mixed-race-people\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/article\/2014\/11\/10\/how-far-have-we-come-our-acceptance-mixed-race-people<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve sexualised or pornographied mixed race. It\u2019s a very narrow line between exoticisation and sexualisation, fetishisms\u2014where you turn all non-white people into people who exist simply into your own pleasure. She said that \u201ca person who is half white is more \u201cpalatable\u201d and acceptable in society \u2013 an idea, she believed, is steeped in racism [&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":[1020,18454,18453,18452],"class_list":["post-38509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-julie-matthews","tag-lin-taylor","tag-sbs","tag-special-broadcasting-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38509","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=38509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}