{"id":41333,"date":"2015-06-08T01:35:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T01:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41333"},"modified":"2015-06-08T01:35:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T01:35:30","slug":"racism-under-a-friendly-guise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41333","title":{"rendered":"Racism under a Friendly Guise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joyhuangstoffers.com\/2015\/05\/racism-under-friendly-guise.html\" target=\"_blank\">Racism under a Friendly Guise<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joyhuangstoffers.com\" target=\"_blank\">Joy Huang Stoffers: Writer and Novelist<\/a><br \/>\nSaturday, 2015-05-09<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joyhuangstoffers.com\/p\/bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Joy Huang Stoffers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>racism, n.<\/p>\n<p>A belief that one\u2019s own racial or ethnic group is superior, or that other such groups represent a threat to one&#8217;s cultural identity, racial integrity, or economic well-being; (also) a belief that the members of different racial or ethnic groups possess specific characteristics, abilities, or qualities, which can be compared and evaluated. Hence: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against people of other racial or ethnic groups (or, more widely, of other nationalities), esp. based on such beliefs. \u2014The <i>OED<\/i>.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since beginning my MA degree in Creative Writing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle University, England<\/a>, I haven&#8217;t been subject to racism. Maybe it&#8217;s because the British are usually reserved. Maybe it&#8217;s because I don&#8217;t go out much. Most likely the answer lies in an amalgamation of these two factors and others.<\/p>\n<p>Today, as I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve guessed, this changed.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I ordered a taxi to go on my once-a-month trip to Costco. (For those of you who don&#8217;t know, Costco is a warehouse that offers members sundry high-quality goods, often in comical bulk.) The cabbie was a jovial, middle-aged Caucasian man with an understandable <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geordie\" target=\"_blank\">Geordie<\/a> accent. I buckled myself in and he, smiling, immediately began to interrogate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joy, right? Where are you from?&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joyhuangstoffers.com\/2015\/05\/racism-under-friendly-guise.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racism under a Friendly Guise Joy Huang Stoffers: Writer and Novelist Saturday, 2015-05-09 Joy Huang Stoffers racism, n. A belief that one\u2019s own racial or ethnic group is superior, or that other such groups represent a threat to one&#8217;s cultural identity, racial integrity, or economic well-being; (also) a belief that the members of different racial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,8,10],"tags":[20170,20169],"class_list":["post-41333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-joy-huang-stoffers","tag-joy-huang-stoffers-writer-and-novelist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41333","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=41333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}