{"id":44284,"date":"2015-11-28T00:02:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T00:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44284"},"modified":"2016-11-09T17:12:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T17:12:58","slug":"just-because-more-people-are-marrying-across-color-lines-today-doesnt-mean-race-or-racism-are-things-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44284","title":{"rendered":"Just because more people are marrying across color lines today doesn\u2019t mean race or racism are things of the past."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cMany people portray the history of race in the United States as the rise of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cone drop of blood\u201d rule<\/a>. We have made too much of this. It was not the one-drop rule that kept the edifice of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Crow<\/a> so strong. Racism could work through many different rules about ancestry, and it did. It could work even with a great deal of racial mixture. Just because more people are marrying across color lines today doesn\u2019t mean race or racism are things of the past.\u201d\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arielagross.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ariela J. Gross<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/about\/contact\/faculty\/contactinfo.cfm?detailid=279\" target=\"_blank\">Gilien Silsby<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44269\" target=\"_blank\">Renowned Legal Historian Discusses Race in America<\/a>,\u201d <em>Gould School of Law News (University of Southern California)<\/em>, October 29, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/press\/article.cfm?newsid=4236\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/press\/article.cfm?newsid=4236<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMany people portray the history of race in the United States as the rise of the \u201cone drop of blood\u201d rule. We have made too much of this. It was not the one-drop rule that kept the edifice of Jim Crow so strong. Racism could work through many different rules about ancestry, and it did. [&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":[880,873,22061,22072,696],"class_list":["post-44284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-ariela-gross","tag-ariela-j-gross","tag-gilien-silsby","tag-gould-school-of-law-news","tag-university-of-southern-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44284","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=44284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44285,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44284\/revisions\/44285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}