{"id":38841,"date":"2014-12-14T01:23:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T01:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38841"},"modified":"2014-12-15T00:15:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T00:15:04","slug":"want-to-know-how-the-average-african-american-came-to-be-65-percent-sub-saharan-african-29-percent-european-and-2-percent-native-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38841","title":{"rendered":"Want to know how the average African-American came to be 65 percent sub-Saharan African, 29 percent European, and 2 percent Native American&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Want to know how the average African-American came to be 65 percent sub-Saharan African, 29 percent European, and 2 percent Native American (source: Ancestry.com)? Most of America doesn\u2019t want to talk about how the beginnings of \u201cmixed-race utopia\u201d started with slave owners raping slaves. And do you really need me to explain how not-utopic that\u2019s turned out?<\/p>\n<p>What this Mixed-Race Fantasia really implies is: <em>The more we erase Black\/Brown\/Foreign bodies (who are the targets of racism), the less racism there will be.<\/em> By romanticizing a future of mixed-race babies as symbols for \u201cracial progress\u201d without more meaningful interrogations of history, we equate an end of racism with the eradication of people of color.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kristina Wong, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=38780\" target=\"_blank\">UNPOPULAR OPINION: 6 Reasons Why Your Utopic Vision for a Mixed-Race Future is My Nightmare<\/a>,\u201d <em>xoJane<\/em>. December 10, 2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xojane.com\/issues\/your-mixed-race-utopia-is-my-nightmare\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.xojane.com\/issues\/your-mixed-race-utopia-is-my-nightmare<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to know how the average African-American came to be 65 percent sub-Saharan African, 29 percent European, and 2 percent Native American (source: Ancestry.com)? Most of America doesn\u2019t want to talk about how the beginnings of \u201cmixed-race utopia\u201d started with slave owners raping slaves. And do you really need me to explain how not-utopic that\u2019s [&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":[18660,18659],"class_list":["post-38841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-kristina-wong","tag-xojane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38841","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=38841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}