{"id":41622,"date":"2015-07-01T21:19:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T21:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41622"},"modified":"2015-07-01T21:19:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T21:19:19","slug":"one-thing-we-often-forget-about-that-case%ef%bb%bf-is-that-homer-plessys%ef%bb%bf-argument-was-that-he-was-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41622","title":{"rendered":"One thing we often forget about that case\ufeff is that Homer Plessy\u2019s\ufeff argument was that he was white!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One thing we often forget about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=8840\" target=\"_blank\">that case<\/a> is that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homer_Plessy\" target=\"_blank\">Homer Plessy\u2019s<\/a> argument was that he was white! He got bounced from the white section because the conductor said he was black. The question wasn\u2019t that all train passengers should be able to sit together, rather Plessy said, \u201cNo, I\u2019m a white person, actually.\u201d The court admitted that it was very important to be able to determine who was white and who was not, and that having the ability to be white <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=37896\" target=\"_blank\">is a form of property<\/a>, that it\u2019s valuable, extremely valuable, in 1896.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brian Jones, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41617\" target=\"_blank\">The Social Construction of Race<\/a>,\u201d <em>Jacobin<\/em>, June 25, 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2015\/06\/racecraft-racism-social-origins-reparations\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2015\/06\/racecraft-racism-social-origins-reparations\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing we often forget about that case is that Homer Plessy\u2019s argument was that he was white! He got bounced from the white section because the conductor said he was black. The question wasn\u2019t that all train passengers should be able to sit together, rather Plessy said, \u201cNo, I\u2019m a white person, actually.\u201d The [&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":[20352,1447,20328,579],"class_list":["post-41622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-brian-jones","tag-homer-plessy","tag-jacobin","tag-plessy-v-ferguson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41622","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=41622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}