{"id":42992,"date":"2015-09-29T17:54:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T17:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42992"},"modified":"2015-09-29T17:54:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T17:54:33","slug":"its-amazing-really-this-intransigent-irrational-belief-that-the-language-of-colorblindness%ef%bb%bf-can-actually-undo-centuries-of-race-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42992","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s amazing, really\u2014this intransigent, irrational belief that the language of \u201ccolorblindness\ufeff\u201d can actually undo centuries of race-making."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It<u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">\u2019<\/span><\/u>s amazing, really\u2014this intransigent, irrational belief that the language of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Color_blindness_(race)_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">colorblindness<\/a>\u201d can actually undo centuries of race-making. The French seem to believe, that through the magical power of language alone, they can talk racism into oblivion. Nevermind the fact that France spent centuries establishing racial hierarchies at home and in its colonial empire for the purpose of enriching the state. Some truly believe that words like \u201cRepublic\u201d and \u201ccitizenship&#8221; and \u201cindivisible&#8221; can suddenly undo processes that were produced and institutionalized over the course of four hundred years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Crystal Fleming, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42989\" target=\"_blank\">France\u2019s Approach to Fighting Racism: Pretty Words and Magical Thinking<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Huffington Post<\/em>, May 7, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/crystal-fleming\/frances-approach-to-fight_b_7231610.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/crystal-fleming\/frances-approach-to-fight_b_7231610.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s amazing, really\u2014this intransigent, irrational belief that the language of \u201ccolorblindness\u201d can actually undo centuries of race-making. The French seem to believe, that through the magical power of language alone, they can talk racism into oblivion. Nevermind the fact that France spent centuries establishing racial hierarchies at home and in its colonial empire for 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":[19446,21240,21239,10108,2425],"class_list":["post-42992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-crystal-fleming","tag-crystal-m-fleming","tag-crystal-marie-fleming","tag-huffington-post","tag-the-huffington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42992","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=42992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42993,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42992\/revisions\/42993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}