{"id":52051,"date":"2017-03-05T22:16:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T22:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52051"},"modified":"2017-03-21T02:01:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T02:01:45","slug":"why-you-cant-ever-call-an-enslaved-woman-a-mistress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52051","title":{"rendered":"Why You Can’t Ever Call an Enslaved Woman a “Mistress”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why You Can’t Ever Call an Enslaved Woman a “Mistress”<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Teen Vogue<\/a>
\n2017-02-27<\/p>\n

Lincoln Blades<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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This is an important Black History Month<\/a> PSA<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the black community, many different opinions<\/a> abound regarding the usefulness of Black History Month<\/a>. For some, it is viewed as a necessary and critical tool for cultural celebration<\/a> and propagating the importance of our collective historical achievements, which otherwise would go unnoticed. For others, it feels like a reductive display of forced lip service<\/a> conducted during the shortest and coldest month of the year, in lieu of providing us with a more sustained and inclusive role in the everyday curriculum. But what we all can agree on is that presenting our history in a wholly accurate and factual manner delivered with the correct context is of the utmost importance, which is why we react so strongly to inaccurate and\/or misrepresentative claims.<\/p>\n

That irritation was inflamed this past weekend when The Washington Post<\/em> published an article<\/a> about a restoration that would be occurring at Monticello<\/a>, the plantation of America’s third president, Thomas Jefferson<\/a>, which is operated<\/a> as a museum. The restoration to be completed will involve unmasking a bathroom installed in 1941 just steps from Jefferson’s bedroom to reveal what the room really was: Sally Hemings’s <\/a>bedroom…<\/p>\n

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

In the black community, many different opinions abound regarding the usefulness of Black History Month. For some, it is viewed as a necessary and critical tool for cultural celebration and propagating the importance of our collective historical achievements, which otherwise would go unnoticed. For others, it feels like a reductive display of forced lip service conducted during the shortest and coldest month of the year, in lieu of providing us with a more sustained and inclusive role in the everyday curriculum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,6940,20],"tags":[26324,918,22573,2875,477,2581],"class_list":["post-52051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-lincoln-blades","tag-sally-hemings","tag-teen-vogue","tag-the-washington-post","tag-thomas-jefferson","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52051","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=52051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52052,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52051\/revisions\/52052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}