{"id":44143,"date":"2015-11-23T02:39:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T02:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44143"},"modified":"2015-11-23T02:48:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T02:48:15","slug":"by-looking-at-afro-latinos-you-kind-of-get-a-better-sense-of-how-fluid-race-has-been-people-have-constructed-it-in-different-ways-depending-on-conditions-and-circumstances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44143","title":{"rendered":"By looking at Afro-Latinos, you kind of get a better sense of how fluid race has been. People have constructed it in different ways depending on conditions and circumstances."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWhether we look at race as a fixed notion or culturally constructed concept it is very real. Race itself is an invention, a creation. Many people feel race is something that\u2019s fixed, rigid and doesn\u2019t have variances. By looking at Afro-Latinos, you kind of get a better sense of how fluid race has been. People have constructed it in different ways depending on conditions and circumstances.\u201d \u2014Miriam Jim\u00e9nez Rom\u00e1n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kim Haas, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44125\" target=\"_blank\">Q&amp;A with Miriam Jim\u00e9nez Rom\u00e1n<\/a>,\u201d <em>Los Afro-Latinos: A Blog Following the Afro-Latino Experience<\/em>, March 30, 2012. <a href=\"http:\/\/losafrolatinos.com\/2012\/03\/30\/qa-with-miriam-jimenez-roman\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/losafrolatinos.com\/2012\/03\/30\/qa-with-miriam-jimenez-roman\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhether we look at race as a fixed notion or culturally constructed concept it is very real. Race itself is an invention, a creation. Many people feel race is something that\u2019s fixed, rigid and doesn\u2019t have variances. By looking at Afro-Latinos, you kind of get a better sense of how fluid race has been. People [&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":[21978,21976,21977,9059],"class_list":["post-44143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-kim-haas","tag-los-afro-latinos","tag-los-afro-latinos-a-blog-following-the-afro-latino-experience","tag-miriam-jimenez-roman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44143","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=44143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44148,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44143\/revisions\/44148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}