{"id":49366,"date":"2016-10-09T01:18:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T01:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49366"},"modified":"2016-10-09T01:22:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T01:22:30","slug":"colin-kaepernick-racial-identity-and-the-power-of-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49366","title":{"rendered":"Colin Kaepernick, Racial Identity and the Power of Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colin Kaepernick, Racial Identity and the Power of Protest<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Racism Review<\/a>
\n2016-09-06<\/p>\n

Alyssa Lyons<\/strong><\/a>
\nDepartment of Sociology
\nThe Graduate Center, City University of New York<\/em><\/p>\n

NFL player Colin Kaepernick has made headlines<\/a> recently by\u00a0refusing to stand for the national anthem<\/a> before football games in protest. It\u2019s a protest linked to racial identity and politics, as Kaepernick<\/a> has said that he\u00a0wants to draw attention to the issue of police brutality, specifically toward people of color in the\u00a0US. However,\u00a0a number of\u00a0political pundits, celebrities and self-identified patriots on social media have taken issue with Kaepernick\u2019s protest. While some of the push back he has received is about the politics of patriotism<\/a>, a good deal of it is about whether his\u00a0racial identity gives him the authority and legitimacy to talk about race…<\/p>\n

…As a self-identified multiracial scholar, the Kaepernick controversy has made think\u00a0a lot about racial identity. I\u2019m intrigued by the geneaology\u00a0of race and racial identities\u2014how much our categories for racial identification shift, yet how much they seemingly remain the same. The interest isn\u2019t purely an intellectual one-it\u2019s personal too. My mother is White (Irish) and my father is Brown (Latino). Because race is so salient in the United States\u2014it\u2019s how we organize and categorize much of our society\u2014race is an integral part of our identity.<\/p>\n

Personally, I\u2019ve just had a difficult journey figuring out where I fit in.\u00a0I was never Latina enough. I didn\u2019t speak the language or embody the culture. Whites knew I wasn\u2019t one of them-my nose looked different, my hair much too dark. But in a society that places a premium on race, how do you find consciousness if your existence has been racialized but you don\u2019t fit into the preexisting racial categories? How can you be heard? What is your role in the fight for racial justice?…<\/p>\n

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

Colin Kaepernick, Racial Identity and the Power of Protest Racism Review 2016-09-06 Alyssa Lyons Department of Sociology The Graduate Center, City University of New York NFL player Colin Kaepernick has made headlines recently by\u00a0refusing to stand for the national anthem before football games in protest. It\u2019s a protest linked to racial identity and politics, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394,20],"tags":[25169,24878,8952,2669,7222],"class_list":["post-49366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-alyssa-lyons","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-football","tag-racism-review","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49366","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=49366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49369,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49366\/revisions\/49369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}