{"id":41949,"date":"2015-07-26T02:23:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T02:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41949"},"modified":"2015-07-26T02:23:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T02:23:25","slug":"rutgers-takes-a-yearlong-look-at-race-place-and-space-in-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41949","title":{"rendered":"Rutgers Takes a Yearlong Look at Race, Place and Space in the Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rutgers Takes a Yearlong Look at Race, Place and Space in the Americas<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Rutgers Today<\/a>
\nRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
\n2011-10-21<\/p>\n

Carrie Stetler<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nHistory professors Ann Fabian<\/a>, left, and Mia Bay<\/a> have been awarded a $175,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to explore how place has impacted the role of race in the Americas.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Mia Bay\u2019s<\/a> mother always thought it was odd that on a plane trip in the 1950s, she just happened to be seated next to the only other black person on the flight.<\/p>\n

Bay, director of the Rutgers Center for Race and Ethnicity<\/a>, didn\u2019t think much of her mother’s story, until she began researching her upcoming book about segregated transportation in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one ever talks about segregation on planes, but I found there was a secret code used to make sure that all black people sat in the same row,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

For Bay, the little known history of airline segregation illustrates the ways in which\u00a0 definitions of race, and the experiences of racial minorities, have differed from place to place\u2014whether it\u2019s a city block, a railroad car, or an airplane.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica\u2019s racial maps have always been complex and contradictory, subject to changing laws and shifting borders.\u201d\u00a0\u2014Ann Fabian<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWho is black and who is white is decided by different calculations, in different places; as is who is Indian and who is not,\u201d says Bay, a professor of history in the School of Arts and Sciences<\/a> (SAS)\u00a0 \u201cThe racial classification of many ethnic groups changes over time; and some societies adopt multiracial categories, while others do not.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rutgers Takes a Yearlong Look at Race, Place and Space in the Americas Rutgers Today Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 2011-10-21 Carrie Stetler History professors Ann Fabian, left, and Mia Bay have been awarded a $175,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to explore how place has impacted the role of race […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,20],"tags":[20517,10736,20518,20516],"class_list":["post-41949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ann-fabian","tag-carrie-stetler","tag-mia-bay","tag-rutgers-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41949","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=41949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41950,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41949\/revisions\/41950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}