{"id":45018,"date":"2016-01-10T01:22:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T01:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45018"},"modified":"2016-01-10T01:22:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T01:22:39","slug":"blackness-didnt-originate-with-my-ancestors-feelings-about-how-they-wanted-to-self-identify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45018","title":{"rendered":"Blackness didn\u2019t originate with my ancestors\u2019 feelings about how they wanted to self-identify."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Blackness didn\u2019t originate with my ancestors\u2019 feelings about how they wanted to self-identify. It was created over a period of centuries through very specific, deliberate constructions in European and white American schools of biology, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phrenology\" target=\"_blank\">phrenology<\/a>, philosophy, anthropology, and political and legal systems to uphold the intrinsic superiority of whiteness and corresponding black inferiority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshphiles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Malaika Jabali<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45006\" target=\"_blank\">Shaun King Is Not Rachel Dolezal: What the Media Gets Wrong About Race in America<\/a>,\u201d <em>For Harriet<\/em>, August 29, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forharriet.com\/2015\/08\/shaun-king-is-not-rachel-dolezal-what.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.forharriet.com\/2015\/08\/shaun-king-is-not-rachel-dolezal-what.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackness didn\u2019t originate with my ancestors\u2019 feelings about how they wanted to self-identify. It was created over a period of centuries through very specific, deliberate constructions in European and white American schools of biology, phrenology, philosophy, anthropology, and political and legal systems to uphold the intrinsic superiority of whiteness and corresponding black inferiority. Malaika Jabali, [&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":[18377,22568],"class_list":["post-45018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-for-harriet","tag-malaika-jabali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45018","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=45018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45019,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45018\/revisions\/45019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}