{"id":41532,"date":"2015-06-22T21:41:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T21:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41532"},"modified":"2015-06-22T21:41:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T21:41:52","slug":"but-ms-dolezals%ef%bb%bf-view-of-herself-however-confused-or-incongruent-with-societys-reveals-an-essential-truth-about-race-it-is-a-fiction-a-social-construc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41532","title":{"rendered":"But Ms. Dolezal\u2019s\ufeff view of herself \u2014 however confused, or incongruent with society\u2019s \u2014 reveals an essential truth about race: It is a fiction, a social construct based in culture and not biology."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/spokanenaacp.com\/rachel-dolezal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ms. [Rachel A.] Dolezal\u2019s<\/a> view of herself \u2014 however confused, or incongruent with society\u2019s \u2014 reveals an essential truth about race: It is a fiction, a social construct based in culture and not biology. It must be \u201cmade\u201d from what people believe and do. Race is performative. It is the memories that bind us, the stories passed down to us, the experiences that we share, the social forces that surround us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allysonhobbs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Allyson Hobbs<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41477\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Dolezal\u2019s Unintended Gift to America<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, June 17, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/17\/opinion\/rachel-dolezals-unintended-gift-to-america.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/17\/opinion\/rachel-dolezals-unintended-gift-to-america.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Ms. [Rachel A.] Dolezal\u2019s view of herself \u2014 however confused, or incongruent with society\u2019s \u2014 reveals an essential truth about race: It is a fiction, a social construct based in culture and not biology. It must be \u201cmade\u201d from what people believe and do. Race is performative. It is the memories that bind us, [&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":[9812,2640,20257,20241,2327],"class_list":["post-41532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-allyson-hobbs","tag-new-york-times","tag-rachel-a-dolezal","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41532","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=41532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}