{"id":41853,"date":"2015-07-22T19:57:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T19:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41853"},"modified":"2015-07-22T19:57:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T19:57:26","slug":"there-is-this-belief-that-love-and-its-mixed-race-children-will-help-break-down-the-barriers-that-have-been-so-doggedly-safe-guarded-for-the-past-several-hundred-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41853","title":{"rendered":"There is this belief that Love and its mixed-race children will help break down the barriers that have been so doggedly safe-guarded for the past several hundred years."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Often when mixed-race identities are discussed today, they are conflated with this idea of our \u201cpost-racial future.\u201d A future where race is no longer an issue and everyone looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Halle_Berry\" target=\"_blank\">Halle Berry<\/a>. The kinds of people who seem to be the most vocal about mixed-race are the people who claim that, \u201cEveryone is a bit mixed-race\u201d or \u201cI don\u2019t see race, we are beyond it\u201d etc. There is this belief that Love and its mixed-race children will help break down the barriers that have been so doggedly safe-guarded for the past several hundred years. Parents of mixed-race children often believe this too, I\u2019ve heard it coming from their mouths many times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sophie Steains, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41846\" target=\"_blank\">Not Your Post-Racial Future: Why Interracial Families Need to Talk About Race<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0<em>ARMED<\/em>, May 17, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/armedpublishing.tumblr.com\/post\/119170717528\/not-your-post-racial-future-why-interracial\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/armedpublishing.tumblr.com\/post\/119170717528\/not-your-post-racial-future-why-interracial<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often when mixed-race identities are discussed today, they are conflated with this idea of our \u201cpost-racial future.\u201d A future where race is no longer an issue and everyone looks like Halle Berry. The kinds of people who seem to be the most vocal about mixed-race are the people who claim that, \u201cEveryone is a bit [&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":[20486,20485],"class_list":["post-41853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-armed","tag-sophie-steains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41853","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=41853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41854,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41853\/revisions\/41854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}