{"id":50172,"date":"2016-11-24T21:57:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T21:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50172"},"modified":"2016-11-24T21:57:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T21:57:44","slug":"the-overarching-commonality-is-the-exceptionalism-of-blackness-and-non-whiteness-rather-than-multiraciality-as-problematic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50172","title":{"rendered":"The overarching commonality is the exceptionalism of blackness and non-whiteness, rather than multiraciality, as problematic."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/info\/23144\/tanya_hernandez\" target=\"_blank\">[Tanya K.] Hernandez\u2019s<\/a> close examination of many multiracial discrimination legal cases in a variety of equality law contexts demonstrates the fallacy and danger of that presumption. The cases frequently describe acts of discrimination accompanied by pointed, derogatory comments about non-whiteness\u2014and blackness in particular. The overarching commonality is the exceptionalism of blackness and non-whiteness, rather than multiraciality, as problematic. Although the complainants may personally identify as multiracial, they present allegations of public discrimination rooted in a specific non-white and black bias that is not novel or particular to mixed-race persons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shane Danaher, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50160\" target=\"_blank\">Multiracialism and Civil Rights<\/a>,\u201d <em>Fordham Law News<\/em>, November 21, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.law.fordham.edu\/blog\/2016\/11\/21\/multiracialism-and-civil-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/news.law.fordham.edu\/blog\/2016\/11\/21\/multiracialism-and-civil-rights\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Tanya K.] Hernandez\u2019s close examination of many multiracial discrimination legal cases in a variety of equality law contexts demonstrates the fallacy and danger of that presumption. The cases frequently describe acts of discrimination accompanied by pointed, derogatory comments about non-whiteness\u2014and blackness in particular. The overarching commonality is the exceptionalism of blackness and non-whiteness, rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24280,25516,2113,5161,2112],"class_list":["post-50172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-fordham-law-news","tag-shane-danahe","tag-tanya-hernandez","tag-tanya-k-hernandez","tag-tanya-kateri-hernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50172","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=50172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50173,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50172\/revisions\/50173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}