{"id":504,"date":"2009-08-26T01:59:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T01:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=504"},"modified":"2013-05-12T18:20:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T18:20:40","slug":"racialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Racialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;If, however, one is critical of race, it then becomes apparent that there is an inherent contradiction in the idea of multiraciality; for if race is a myth, <strong>then multirace must of necessity be a myth as well<\/strong>.\u00a0 Yet how is one to self-identify, to assert an identity, when the only language seeming available is infused with the terminology of racialism?\u00a0 <strong>The answer lies in challenging rather than acceding to the hemogeny of race and rejecting the premise that personal identity need be race based to begin with.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rainier Spencer, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perseusbooksgroup.com\/perseus\/book_detail_redirect.do?imprintCid=WV&amp;isbn=0813336775\" target=\"_blank\">Spurious Isses: Race and Multiracial Identity Politics in the United States<\/a><\/em>, p. 89<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If, however, one is critical of race, it then becomes apparent that there is an inherent contradiction in the idea of multiraciality; for if race is a myth, then multirace must of necessity be a myth as well.\u00a0 Yet how is one to self-identify, to assert an identity, when the only language seeming available is [&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":[45],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-rainier-spencer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","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=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}