{"id":44503,"date":"2015-12-07T02:49:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T02:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44503"},"modified":"2016-01-16T16:09:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T16:09:06","slug":"white-people-are-no-more-closely-related-to-one-another-genetically-than-we-are-to-black-people-american-definitions-of-race-allow-for-a-white-woman-to-give-birth-to-black-children-which-should-se","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44503","title":{"rendered":"White people are no more closely related to one another, genetically, than we are to black people. American definitions of race allow for a white woman to give birth to black children, which should serve as a reminder that white people are not a family."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Whiteness is not a kinship or a culture. White people are no more closely related to one another, genetically, than we are to black people. American definitions of race allow for a white woman to give birth to black children, which should serve as a reminder that white people are not a family. What binds us is that we share a system of social advantages that can be traced back to the advent of slavery in the colonies that became the United States. \u201cThere is, in fact, no white community,\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Baldwin\" target=\"_blank\">[James] Baldwin<\/a> writes. Whiteness is not who you are. Which is why it is entirely possible to despise whiteness without disliking yourself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eulabiss.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eula Biss<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44478\" target=\"_blank\">White Debt: Reckoning with what is owed \u2014 and what can never be repaid \u2014 for racial privilege<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, December 2, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/06\/magazine\/white-debt.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/06\/magazine\/white-debt.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whiteness is not a kinship or a culture. White people are no more closely related to one another, genetically, than we are to black people. American definitions of race allow for a white woman to give birth to black children, which should serve as a reminder that white people are not a family. What binds [&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":[22200,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-44503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-eula-biss","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44503","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=44503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45113,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44503\/revisions\/45113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}