{"id":46291,"date":"2016-03-30T02:09:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T02:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46291"},"modified":"2016-03-30T02:16:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T02:16:29","slug":"but-i-am-saying-in-this-novel%ef%bb%bf-as-in-other-works-the-lessons-i-have-learned-from-my-life-as-a-mother-now-a-grandmother-as-a-teacher-of-african-american-literature-and-a-writer-about-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46291","title":{"rendered":"But I am saying, in this novel\ufeff, as in other works, the lessons I have learned from my life as a mother, now a grandmother, as a teacher of African American literature and a writer about race: that so-called mixedness means little in American history."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cBut I am saying, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=18261\" target=\"_blank\">in this novel<\/a>, as in other works, the lessons I have learned from my life as a mother, now a grandmother, as a teacher of African American literature and a writer about race: that so-called mixedness means little in American history. As I said above, many enslaved Americans, including the great <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederick_Douglass\" target=\"_blank\">Frederick Douglass<\/a>, were \u201cmixed\u201d due to rape or forced sexual unions, and nevertheless remained enslaved.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.janelazarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Lazarre<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpotter01.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Potter<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=18263\" target=\"_blank\">Rejoining the Parts: A Conversation with Jane Lazarre About Race, Fiction, American History and Her New Novel,<\/a> <em>Inheritance<\/em>,\u201d <em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, November 15, 2011. <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blognetwork\/tenuredradical\/2011\/11\/1432\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blognetwork\/tenuredradical\/2011\/11\/1432\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut I am saying, in this novel, as in other works, the lessons I have learned from my life as a mother, now a grandmother, as a teacher of African American literature and a writer about race: that so-called mixedness means little in American history. As I said above, many enslaved Americans, including the great [&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":[9497,8299,5559,2183],"class_list":["post-46291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-chronicle-of-higher-education","tag-claire-potter","tag-jane-lazarre","tag-the-chronicle-of-higher-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46291","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=46291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46292,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46291\/revisions\/46292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}