{"id":49340,"date":"2016-10-08T01:05:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T01:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49340"},"modified":"2016-10-08T01:05:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T01:05:32","slug":"who-are-we-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49340","title":{"rendered":"Who Are We, Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who Are We, Really?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

View from Rue Saint-Georges<\/a>
\nThe American Scholar<\/a>
\n2016-09-21<\/p>\n

Thomas Chatterton Williams<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nDetail from The Redemption of Ham<\/em><\/a> by Modesto Brocos y G\u00f3mez<\/a> (1895)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Lately, as I\u2019ve been working on my second book, a meditation on the absurdity of sorting human beings into metaphorical color categories, I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about the concept of passing. In his 1948 autobiography, A Man Called White<\/em><\/a>, the pale-skinned, blond-haired, blue-eyed former NAACP<\/a> leader, Walter White<\/a>, observed, \u201cMany Negroes are judged as whites. Every year approximately twelve-thousand white-skinned Negroes disappear<\/a>\u2014people whose absence cannot be explained by death or emigration.\u201d Or as Henry Louis Gates Jr.<\/a> has tabulated more recently, \u201cHow many ostensibly \u2018white\u2019 Americans walking around today would be classified as \u2018black\u2019 under the one-drop rule<\/a>? Judging by the last U.S. Census, 7,872,702. To put that in context, that number is equal to roughly 20 percent, or a fifth, of the total number of people identified as African American in the same census count!\u201d…<\/p>\n

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

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