{"id":46172,"date":"2016-03-23T18:03:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T18:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46172"},"modified":"2016-03-23T18:03:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T18:03:24","slug":"i-make-clear-that-being-passionate-about-racial-justice-does-not-require-white-people-to-become-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46172","title":{"rendered":"I make clear that being passionate about racial justice does not require white people to become black."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As the director of African-American Studies at the University of Montana for the last seven years, I tell my students each semester, \u201cI want you to know that I know I&#8217;m white.\u201d I make clear that being passionate about racial justice does not require white people to become black.<\/p>\n<p>It requires those of us who are white to become more, not less, aware of our racial identity and all the power, privilege, and access it affords. Masking that identity, as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rachel_Dolezal\" target=\"_blank\">[Rachel] Dolezal<\/a> tried to do, changes nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Only changing the institutional practices that give the benefit of the doubt to white people will create a world where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">racial passing <\/a>no longer captures our attention.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tobin Shearer, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46160\" target=\"_blank\">Reflections On Rachel Dolezal, White Privilege, And \u201cAmerica\u2019s Headlong Progress\u201d<\/a>,\u201d <em>Reflections West, Montana Public Radio<\/em>, March 9, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/mtpr.org\/post\/reflections-rachel-dolezal-white-privilege-and-americas-headlong-progress\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mtpr.org\/post\/reflections-rachel-dolezal-white-privilege-and-americas-headlong-progress<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/cpa.ds.npr.org\/kufm\/audio\/2016\/03\/RW-Shearer-Dubois-03-09-16_0.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/cpa.ds.npr.org\/kufm\/audio\/2016\/03\/RW-Shearer-Dubois-03-09-16_0.mp3<\/a>\u00a0(00:01:54-00:02:44).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the director of African-American Studies at the University of Montana for the last seven years, I tell my students each semester, \u201cI want you to know that I know I&#8217;m white.\u201d I make clear that being passionate about racial justice does not require white people to become black. It requires those of us who [&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":[23294,20257,20241,23287,23286,23284,23285],"class_list":["post-46172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-montana-public","tag-rachel-a-dolezal","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-reflections-west","tag-tobin-m-shearer","tag-tobin-miller-shearer","tag-tobin-shearer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46172","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=46172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46173,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46172\/revisions\/46173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}