{"id":41184,"date":"2015-05-21T17:10:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T17:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41184"},"modified":"2015-05-21T17:10:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T17:10:23","slug":"if-2050-is-the-year-that-400-years-of-racism-ends-in-one-fell-photogenic-swoop-then-sure-i-cant-wait-but-forgive-me-if-our-collective-crushes-on-rashida-jones-lolo-jones-and-norah-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41184","title":{"rendered":"If 2050 is the year that 400 years of racism ends in one fell, photogenic swoop, then sure, I can\u2019t wait. But forgive me if our collective crushes on Rashida Jones, Lolo Jones, and Norah Jones don\u2019t inspire hope."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIf 2050 is the year that 400 years of racism ends in one fell, photogenic swoop, then sure, I can\u2019t wait. But forgive me if our collective crushes on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rashida_Jones\" target=\"_blank\">Rashida Jones<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lolo_Jones\" target=\"_blank\">Lolo Jones<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norah_Jones\" target=\"_blank\">Norah Jones<\/a> don\u2019t inspire hope. Beauty is a cultural value whose definition has changed dramatically over time. But science and society have a long history of justifying our shifting tastes when it comes to race. White supremacy has been bolstered through race-based compulsory sterilization, anti-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> laws, and likening people of color to animals.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/multiasianfamilies.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon Chang<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41180\" target=\"_blank\">This Mocha-Caramel-Honey Post-Racial Fantasy Is Making Me Sick<\/a>,\u201d <em>BuzzFeed<\/em>, May 21. 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/sharonchang\/this-mocha-caramel-honey-post-racial-fantasy-is-making-me-si\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/sharonchang\/this-mocha-caramel-honey-post-racial-fantasy-is-making-me-si<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf 2050 is the year that 400 years of racism ends in one fell, photogenic swoop, then sure, I can\u2019t wait. But forgive me if our collective crushes on Rashida Jones, Lolo Jones, and Norah Jones don\u2019t inspire hope. Beauty is a cultural value whose definition has changed dramatically over time. But science and society [&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":[13345,14613,16773],"class_list":["post-41184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-buzzfeed","tag-sharon-chang","tag-sharon-h-chang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41184","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=41184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}