{"id":42076,"date":"2015-07-31T20:16:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T20:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42076"},"modified":"2015-07-31T20:16:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T20:16:23","slug":"naming-this-era-of-racial-contradictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42076","title":{"rendered":"Naming this era of racial contradictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Naming this era of racial contradictions<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Boston Globe<\/a>
\n2015-08-01<\/p>\n

Farah Stockman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019re entering a new era of race relations in America \u2014 a crazy, conflicting, potentially explosive era yet to be named.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s an era of white insecurity about racial identity as the country moves toward a nonwhite majority. Dylann Roof<\/a>, who murdered nine black people in a church<\/a>, and Rachel Dolezal<\/a>, who declared herself black on national television, could be two sides of that coin.<\/p>\n

Or maybe it\u2019s an era of increasing black confidence. What\u2019s unprecedented about the spate of black people who\u2019ve died in police custody is not the deaths themselves \u2014 those are sadly not new \u2014 but rather the fact that they\u2019re being covered prominently on national news.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something else notable about our conversations on race today: the disconnect between where we are in 2015 and where we thought we\u2019d be. The half-finished project of racial equality in the United States leaves us with a parade of endless contradictions.<\/p>\n

We overwhelmingly support the idea of integration. Yet, 75 percent of white people<\/a> don\u2019t have a single black friend, and 66 percent of black people don\u2019t have a white one.<\/p>\n

In a city like Boston<\/a>, poor kids tend to go to poor schools, and wealthy kids to affluent schools.<\/p>\n

We elected a black president. Yet we still incarcerate blacks at nearly six times the rate<\/a> of whites. We\u2019ve had not one but two black secretaries of state. Yet, a study shows<\/a> that women with \u201cblack-sounding\u201d names \u2014 like Lakisha and Aisha \u2014 still have a hard time getting hired as secretaries.<\/p>\n

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

Naming this era of racial contradictions The Boston Globe 2015-08-01 Farah Stockman We\u2019re entering a new era of race relations in America \u2014 a crazy, conflicting, potentially explosive era yet to be named. Maybe it\u2019s an era of white insecurity about racial identity as the country moves toward a nonwhite majority. Dylann Roof, who murdered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,20],"tags":[3711,4072,18351,3712,5579],"class_list":["post-42076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-boston","tag-boston-globe","tag-farah-stockman","tag-massachusetts","tag-the-boston-globe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42076","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=42076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42077,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42076\/revisions\/42077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}