{"id":39716,"date":"2015-01-27T01:42:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T01:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39716"},"modified":"2015-07-26T04:09:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T04:09:50","slug":"have-that-awkward-conversation-about-race-and-yes-whiteness-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39716","title":{"rendered":"Have That Awkward Conversation About Race \u2013 And Yes, Whiteness Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kuow.org\/post\/have-awkward-conversation-about-race-and-yes-whiteness-too\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Have That Awkward Conversation About Race \u2013 And Yes, Whiteness Too<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kuow.org\" target=\"_blank\">KUOW 94.9 FM<\/a><br \/>\nSeattle, Washington<br \/>\n2014-12-24<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kuow.org\/people\/jamala-henderson\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jamala Henderson<\/strong><\/a>, Morning Newscaster\/Reporter<\/p>\n<p><em>Protests over high profile police shootings have renewed calls to discuss police treatment of African-Americans \u2013 and talk about race relations in general. But how do we have those difficult and often awkward conversations? KUOW\u2019s Jamala Henderson put that question to University of Washington <a href=\"http:\/\/www.com.washington.edu\/joseph\/\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Ralina Joseph<\/a>. Highlights from the interview:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do I talk about race with family and friends?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I tell them you need to just start talking. It needs to be a conversation about what does your family look like? What does your family talk about? What are the silences that you have? There&#8217;s not one simple answer. The answer is honestly engaging in dialog engaging in conversation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What makes race so difficult to talk about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some people refuse to name people by race and ethnicity for example in thinking that that&#8217;s a progressive move that shows to them they&#8217;re colorblind and they&#8217;re above labeling people.<\/p>\n<p>But I think that&#8217;s actually part of the problem. Pretending that people are all the same, that we don&#8217;t see difference, doesn&#8217;t actually make disproportionality go away. It just means that we don&#8217;t actually have the tools to be able to talk about describe race&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/kuow.org\/post\/have-awkward-conversation-about-race-and-yes-whiteness-too\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Listen to the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/cpa.ds.npr.org\/kuow\/audio\/2014\/12\/1223joseph.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have That Awkward Conversation About Race \u2013 And Yes, Whiteness Too KUOW 94.9 FM Seattle, Washington 2014-12-24 Jamala Henderson, Morning Newscaster\/Reporter Protests over high profile police shootings have renewed calls to discuss police treatment of African-Americans \u2013 and talk about race relations in general. But how do we have those difficult and often awkward conversations? 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