{"id":48790,"date":"2016-08-23T19:04:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T19:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48790"},"modified":"2016-11-16T23:30:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T23:30:52","slug":"anti-blackness-and-the-myths-of-monoracial-privilege-the-whiteblack-binary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48790","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Blackness And The Myths Of \u201cMonoracial Privilege\u201d &#038; The \u201cWhite\/Black Binary\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gradientlair.com\/post\/77254727896\/anti-blackness-monoracial-privilege-myth-white-black-bin\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Anti-Blackness And The Myths Of \u201cMonoracial Privilege\u201d &amp; The \u201cWhite\/Black Binary\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gradientlair.com\" target=\"_blank\">Gradient Lair: Black women + art, media, social media, socio-politics &amp; culture<\/a><br \/>\n2014-02-20<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetrudz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Trudy Hamilton<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the last few days in social media I have seen conversations about the experiences of multiracial\/mixed people of colour and these conversations have often been framed by anti-Blackness including notions of \u201cmonoracial privilege\u201d and the \u201cWhite\/Black binary.\u201d At times, these conversations have been so incredibly cruel that perhaps I should have done more to avoid them (somewhat hard to on Twitter as these conversations have occurred even among \u201canti-racism activists\u201d and \u201cfeminists\u201d) because it does not really help for someone like me who deals with anxiety and deals with anti-Blackness daily where I live. On the one hand, many non-Black people of colour demand solidarity with Black people\u2013often to the point where Black people\u2019s deaths become rhetorical devices about \u201cgeneric\u201d \u201cpeople of colour\u201d being extrajudicially killed (when this is overwhelmingly a Black experience) and Black women are expected to just be <em>mules<\/em> to <em>drag<\/em> their signs written with concepts that Black women created\u2013but on the other hand, they use anti-Black framing to articulate their identities and experiences, while also not holding White supremacy accountable for why these differences even matter in a way that creates hierarchical and intersecting oppressions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gradientlair.com\/post\/77254727896\/anti-blackness-monoracial-privilege-myth-white-black-bin\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Blackness And The Myths Of \u201cMonoracial Privilege\u201d &amp; The \u201cWhite\/Black Binary\u201d Gradient Lair: Black women + art, media, social media, socio-politics &amp; culture 2014-02-20 Trudy Hamilton In the last few days in social media I have seen conversations about the experiences of multiracial\/mixed people of colour and these conversations have often been framed by anti-Blackness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,23674],"tags":[24833,24834],"class_list":["post-48790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","tag-gradient-lair","tag-trudy-hamilton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48790","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=48790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48791,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48790\/revisions\/48791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}