{"id":48788,"date":"2016-08-23T18:44:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T18:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48788"},"modified":"2016-08-23T18:44:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T18:44:45","slug":"what-is-monoracial-privilege-hint-if-you-are-one-race-only-youve-got-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48788","title":{"rendered":"What Is Monoracial Privilege? (Hint: If You Are One Race Only You\u2019ve Got It\u2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Is Monoracial Privilege? (Hint: If You Are One Race Only You\u2019ve Got It\u2026)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Mixed Race Feminist Blog<\/a>
\n2016-01-17<\/p>\n

Nicola Codner<\/strong><\/a>
\nLeeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n

The definition of the word monoracial is to be \u2018composed of or involving members of one race only\u2019. Monoracial privilege therefore refers to the advantages and benefits that come with being a person who is one race only. A person of any race can have this privilege if they are of only one race.<\/p>\n

Monoracial privilege is an extremely<\/em> controversial topic. I am 100% certain this article would never be posted by a popular feminist blog for that very reason. Many black American people insist monoracial privilege is not real and some multiracial American people agree with this too. I\u2019m less clear about perspectives on this in the UK, where I live, and where race is less discussed. In this article I will outline some of the privileges that come with being monoracial and you can decide for yourself where you stand on this. I think the only reason people can get away with saying monoracial privilege doesn\u2019t exist is because multiracial perspectives have such a long history of being ignored or dismissed. There is a lack of research on the racial experiences of multiracial people and as a group we have really only just begun to join forces and to speak out about our experiences. All of this makes it very easy for monoracial people to insist that multiracial perspectives are invalid. Despite the fact that the impact of racism on multiracial people is relatively unexplored territory and most people know nothing about the lives of multiracial people, many monoracial people constantly tell us what our experiences are and are not. This has been the story of my life. Between white racism and horizontal hostility from the other minority ethnic group or groups we belong to, multiracial people are often expected to keep our mouths shut. Well, I\u2019m here to say, no I don\u2019t think so! I\u2019m not doing this anymore.<\/strong> I\u2019m not going to be silenced by monoracial people. I know<\/em> that monoracial privilege is real from my own lived experience…<\/p>\n

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

What Is Monoracial Privilege? (Hint: If You Are One Race Only You\u2019ve Got It\u2026) Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-01-17 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom The definition of the word monoracial is to be \u2018composed of or involving members of one race only\u2019. Monoracial privilege therefore refers to the advantages and benefits that come with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,10],"tags":[22773,21853],"class_list":["post-48788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-mixed-race-feminist-blog","tag-nicola-codner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48788","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=48788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48789,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48788\/revisions\/48789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}