{"id":44864,"date":"2015-12-29T02:55:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T02:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44864"},"modified":"2015-12-29T02:55:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T02:55:51","slug":"taken-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44864","title":{"rendered":"Taken Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.ucsb.edu\/2015\/016234\/taken-identity\" target=\"_blank\">Taken Identity<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.ucsb.edu\" target=\"_blank\">The UC Santa Barbara Current<\/a><br \/>\nSanta Barbara, California<br \/>\n2015-12-21<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:jim.logan@ucsb.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Logan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A new book by a UC Santa Barbara historian traces the bright and fuzzy lines of race in America<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The United States\u2019 long record on race is, shall we say, checkered. Even in a time when an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">African-American sits in the White House <\/a>and mixed-race families are common, issues of race and identity still roil the national conversation. How do we make sense of this seeming contradiction?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.ucsb.edu\/faculty\/paul-spickard\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Spickard<\/a>, a UC Santa Barbara historian and one of the country\u2019s foremost scholars of race, has some ideas on the matter. In his new book, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44793\" target=\"_blank\">Race in Mind: Critical Essays<\/a>\u201d (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015), Spickard tackles a range of issues, including racial categories, identity, multiethnicity, Whiteness studies and more. In 14 essays that span more than 20 years of scholarship, he dissects the history of race as a social construct and assesses the present and future of race in America with insight and wit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Spickard doesn\u2019t just study race, he\u2019s lived with and observed its peculiarities his whole life. Growing up in inner-city <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seattle\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle<\/a>, his high school was roughly 60 percent black and 30 percent Asian. He calls it \u201cthe accident of where I grew up. Except for family members and two friends in high school, I had never had a five-minute conversation with a white person in my life until I went away to college. Racial questions are kind of the questions of my life.\u201d His two adult children are half Chinese American. Both identify as mixed, but one lives in an entirely Chinese American social world and the other a mostly white one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.ucsb.edu\/2015\/016234\/taken-identity\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken Identity The UC Santa Barbara Current Santa Barbara, California 2015-12-21 Jim Logan A new book by a UC Santa Barbara historian traces the bright and fuzzy lines of race in America The United States\u2019 long record on race is, shall we say, checkered. Even in a time when an African-American sits in the White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,26,394,20],"tags":[22474,323,22472,22473],"class_list":["post-44864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-jim-logan","tag-paul-spickard","tag-the-uc-santa-barbara-current","tag-uc-santa-barbara-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44864","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=44864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44865,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44864\/revisions\/44865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}