{"id":4960,"date":"2013-02-25T00:50:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T00:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2016-03-01T01:46:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T01:46:03","slug":"bwatrwp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4960","title":{"rendered":"My self-designation: Black with Access to Residual White Privilege (BWATRWP)."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230;I don\u2019t believe multi-racial makes sense by my understanding of race.\u00a0 Race is socially constructed and \u201cmulti-racial\u201d seems to assume that race is biological: if parents are of different then the kid is \u201cmixed\u201d. \u00a0 But that is not how race works. Race is constructed through law, history, culture, practice, custom, etc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack\u201d does not designate having two parents who are both \u201cun-mixed\u201d descendants of Africa and African diaspora. \u201cBlack\u201d [is] derived from society.\u00a0 There is no &#8220;mixed race&#8221; history, institutions, cultural practices.\u00a0 There are mixed race [people] who are part of all these, but no group history.\u00a0 I believe all people can self-identify themselves in ways that feel comfortable and honest, but the social\/political part is bigger. I have a white mother and black father, but this doesn&#8217;t make me mixed race. \u00a0<strong>Race is not biology. In USA this combo makes me black.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My self-designation: Black with Access to Residual White Privilege (BWATRWP)&#8230;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melissaharrislacewell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Harris-Lacewell<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eddings, Jeff, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedchild.com\/NEWS\/August2009\/Princeton_Professor.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Princeton Professor tweets about her views on mixed-race identity<\/a>,\u201d <em>Mixed Child: The Pulse of the Mixed Community<\/em>, (July 27, 2009). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedchild.com\/NEWS\/August2009\/Princeton_Professor.htm\">http:\/\/www.mixedchild.com\/NEWS\/August2009\/Princeton_Professor.htm<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/coleridgehead.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/melissa-harris-lacewell-on-race.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/coleridgehead.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/melissa-harris-lacewell-on-race.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I don\u2019t believe multi-racial makes sense by my understanding of race.\u00a0 Race is socially constructed and \u201cmulti-racial\u201d seems to assume that race is biological: if parents are of different then the kid is \u201cmixed\u201d. \u00a0 But that is not how race works. Race is constructed through law, history, culture, practice, custom, etc. \u201cBlack\u201d does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1997,1915,6477],"class_list":["post-4960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-bwatrwp","tag-melissa-harris-lacewell","tag-melissa-harris-perry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960","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=4960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45840,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions\/45840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}