{"id":49432,"date":"2016-10-14T15:35:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T15:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49432"},"modified":"2020-02-13T15:51:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T15:51:56","slug":"tracing-your-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49432","title":{"rendered":"Tracing Your &#8220;Routes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SpqUAxh7X74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Tracing Your &#8220;Routes&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCsT0YIqwnpJCM-mx7-gSA4Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TEDx Talks<\/a>: TEDxSBUWomen<br \/>\nStony Brook University, State University of New York<br \/>\n2015-07-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZebulonMiletsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Zebulon Miletsky<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Africana Studies<br \/>\n<em>Stony Brook University, State University of New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SpqUAxh7X74?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;He&#8217;s gonna have a hard time proving he&#8217;s a brother.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZebulonMiletsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Zebulon Miletsky<\/a> discusses his journey through the multiple worlds of race and identity as he shares his experiences with researching his own family genealogy, the various &#8220;routes&#8221; this process led him to and how &#8220;tracing your routes&#8221; can lead to more than just knowledge about your background&#8211;it&#8217;s about how we treat one another along those &#8220;routes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Zebulon Miletsky teaches African-American History at Stony Brook University where he is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies. He is the author of numerous articles, essays and most recently a book chapter that appeared in the anthology \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority<\/a>\u201d which traces the contested meanings throughout history of terminology for multiracial people and the role that this historical legacy of \u201cnaming\u201d plays into how <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Obama<\/a> is read as African American, but still asserts a strategic biracial identity through the use of language, symbols, and interactions with the media. Miletsky who is half-Jewish (white) and African-American\/Afro-Caribbean, has done a great deal of genealogical research for a book manuscript in progress and is in the process of researching his own family tree. He lives in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brooklyn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Zebulon Miletsky discusses his journey through the multiple worlds of race and identity as he shares his experiences with researching his own family genealogy, the various &#8220;routes&#8221; this process led him to and how &#8220;tracing your routes&#8221; can lead to more than just knowledge about your background&#8211;it&#8217;s about how we treat one another along those &#8220;routes&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,395,3601,8,820,20,842],"tags":[17453,25192,3709,4091],"class_list":["post-49432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-autobiography","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","category-videos","tag-tedx-talks","tag-tedxsbuwomen","tag-zebulon-miletsky","tag-zebulon-vance-miletsky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49432","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=49432"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59521,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49432\/revisions\/59521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}