{"id":45265,"date":"2016-01-22T03:30:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T03:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45265"},"modified":"2016-01-22T03:31:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T03:31:39","slug":"oregons-portland-community-college-to-mark-whiteness-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45265","title":{"rendered":"Oregon\u2019s Portland Community College to mark \u2018Whiteness History Month\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oregon\u2019s Portland Community College to mark \u2018Whiteness History Month\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

NBC News<\/a>
\n2016-01-21<\/p>\n

Shamar Walters<\/a><\/strong> and Cassandra Vinograd<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

First comes Black History Month<\/a> and then … Whiteness History Month?<\/p>\n

A community college in Oregon<\/a> has set aside April to look at “whiteness<\/a>” \u2014 but not to celebrate what it’s described as a social construct which leads to inequality.<\/p>\n

Portland Community College’s Diversity Council is behind the event, which it called a “bold adventure<\/a>” to examine “race and racism through an exploration of the construction of whiteness, its origins and heritage.”<\/p>\n

The project is “not a celebratory endeavor” but an “effort to change our campus climate,” the school said on its website…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oregon\u2019s Portland Community College to mark \u2018Whiteness History Month\u2019 NBC News 2016-01-21 Shamar Walters and Cassandra Vinograd First comes Black History Month and then … Whiteness History Month? A community college in Oregon has set aside April to look at “whiteness” \u2014 but not to celebrate what it’s described as a social construct which leads […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8,20],"tags":[22726,15127,5509,17054,22728,22727],"class_list":["post-45265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-cassandra-vinograd","tag-nbc-news","tag-oregon","tag-portland","tag-portland-community-college","tag-shamar-walters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45265","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=45265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45267,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45265\/revisions\/45267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}