{"id":48240,"date":"2016-07-12T22:14:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T22:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48240"},"modified":"2016-12-22T20:15:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T20:15:26","slug":"colonial-landowners-inherited-slavery-as-an-ancient-practice-but-they-invented-race-as-a-modern-system-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48240","title":{"rendered":"\u201cColonial landowners inherited slavery as an ancient practice, but they invented race as a modern system of power.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cAs officials split white indenture from black enslavement and established \u2018white,\u2019 \u2018Negro,\u2019 and \u2018Indian\u2019 as distinct legal categories, race was literally manufactured by law&#8230; Colonial landowners inherited slavery as an ancient practice, but they invented race as a modern system of power.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.sas.upenn.edu\/content\/dorothy-roberts\" target=\"_blank\">Dorothy Roberts<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Melissa Jacobs, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48226\" target=\"_blank\">Dangerous Ideas<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Pennsylvania Gazette<\/em>, June 20, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/thepenngazette.com\/dangerous-ideas\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thepenngazette.com\/dangerous-ideas\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs officials split white indenture from black enslavement and established \u2018white,\u2019 \u2018Negro,\u2019 and \u2018Indian\u2019 as distinct legal categories, race was literally manufactured by law&#8230; Colonial landowners inherited slavery as an ancient practice, but they invented race as a modern system of power.\u201d \u2014Dorothy Roberts Melissa Jacobs, \u201cDangerous Ideas,\u201d The Pennsylvania Gazette, June 20, 2016. http:\/\/thepenngazette.com\/dangerous-ideas\/.<\/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":[10148,1272,24464,9926,9925],"class_list":["post-48240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-dorothy-e-roberts","tag-dorothy-roberts","tag-melissa-jacobs","tag-pennsylvania-gazette","tag-the-pennsylvania-gazette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48240","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=48240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48241,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48240\/revisions\/48241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}