{"id":46708,"date":"2016-04-25T02:08:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T02:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46708"},"modified":"2017-02-19T22:46:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:46:07","slug":"malia-bouattias-election-as-nus-president-proves-deeply-divisive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46708","title":{"rendered":"Malia Bouattia’s election as NUS president proves deeply divisive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malia Bouattia’s election as NUS president proves deeply divisive<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2016-04-22<\/p>\n

Jessica Elgot<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nAt the NUS<\/a> conference, Bouattia<\/a> won on the first round. Photograph: NUS\/PA<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Jewish student groups alarmed by her election, but the first black Muslim woman in the role has nerves of steel, and young activists love her for that<\/em><\/p>\n

It is rare that the election of a student union president merits the flurry of headlines that greeted Malia Bouattia<\/a>. But her election, as the first black Muslim woman to hold the office, has been one of the most divisive moments in the National Union of Students\u2019<\/a> recent history…<\/p>\n

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

Malia Bouattia’s election as NUS president proves deeply divisive The Guardian 2016-04-22 Jessica Elgot At the NUS conference, Bouattia won on the first round. Photograph: NUS\/PA Jewish student groups alarmed by her election, but the first black Muslim woman in the role has nerves of steel, and young activists love her for that It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8,820,10],"tags":[23644,23648,23647,23645,23646,2103],"class_list":["post-46708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-uk","tag-jessica-elgot","tag-malia-bouattia","tag-megan-dunn","tag-national-union-of-students","tag-nus","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46708","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=46708"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51691,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46708\/revisions\/51691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}