{"id":44596,"date":"2015-12-14T03:26:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T03:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44596"},"modified":"2015-12-14T03:26:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T03:26:38","slug":"im-arming-my-brown-skinned-son-with-a-robust-sense-of-racial-and-cultural-self-an-emphatic-image-to-start-one-rooted-in-reality-but-also-acknowledges-prevailing-adverse-illusions-that-prese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44596","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m arming my brown-skinned son with a robust sense of racial and cultural self. An emphatic image to start; one rooted in reality but also acknowledges prevailing adverse illusions that present barriers for people of color."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I also recognize there are governments, institutions and individuals in this country that systematically define blackness visually, often assigning economic, social and legal penalties along the way. This is America\u2019s reality; one that must be reckoned with.<\/p>\n<p>Amid such enduring color bias, I\u2019m arming my brown-skinned son with a robust sense of racial and cultural self. An emphatic image to start; one rooted in reality but also acknowledges prevailing adverse illusions that present barriers for people of color. A sturdy platform on which to germinate and then evolve identity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/4humansbeing\" target=\"_blank\">J.R. Reynolds<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44586\" target=\"_blank\">J.R. Reynolds: Say it loud: He\u2019s black and I\u2019m proud<\/a>,\u201d <em>Battle Creek Enquirer<\/em>, December 7, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battlecreekenquirer.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/2015\/12\/07\/jr-reynolds-say-loud-black-proud\/76919988\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.battlecreekenquirer.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/2015\/12\/07\/jr-reynolds-say-loud-black-proud\/76919988\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I also recognize there are governments, institutions and individuals in this country that systematically define blackness visually, often assigning economic, social and legal penalties along the way. This is America\u2019s reality; one that must be reckoned with. Amid such enduring color bias, I\u2019m arming my brown-skinned son with a robust sense of racial and cultural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[22254,22256,22255],"class_list":["post-44596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-battle-creek-enquirer","tag-j-r-reynolds","tag-the-battle-creek-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44596","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=44596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44597,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44596\/revisions\/44597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}