{"id":52787,"date":"2017-03-23T01:27:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T01:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52787"},"modified":"2017-03-23T01:27:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T01:27:06","slug":"whiteness-isnt-a-biological-fact-rather-it-is-a-sort-of-members-only-club-that-has-rewritten-its-entry-requirements-over-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52787","title":{"rendered":"Whiteness isn\u2019t a biological fact, rather it is a sort of members-only club that has rewritten its entry requirements over the years."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The idea that white identity is under attack assumes that whiteness is something fixed, something immutable. But whiteness has always been a fluid category. Whiteness isn\u2019t a biological fact, rather it is a sort of members-only club that has rewritten its entry requirements over the years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Arwa Mahdawi, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52724\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019m a bit brown. But in America I\u2019m white. Not for much longer<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Guardian<\/em>, March 21, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/mar\/21\/us-census-whiteness-race-colour-middle-east-north-africa-america\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/mar\/21\/us-census-whiteness-race-colour-middle-east-north-africa-america<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea that white identity is under attack assumes that whiteness is something fixed, something immutable. But whiteness has always been a fluid category. Whiteness isn\u2019t a biological fact, rather it is a sort of members-only club that has rewritten its entry requirements over the years.<\/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":[26610,2103],"class_list":["post-52787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-arwa-mahdawi","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52787","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=52787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52788,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52787\/revisions\/52788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}