{"id":53007,"date":"2017-03-28T15:30:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T15:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53007"},"modified":"2017-03-28T15:30:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T15:30:22","slug":"imagine-the-world-classifying-barack-obama-as-a-white-man-as-a-result-of-his-white-heritage-it-would-never-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53007","title":{"rendered":"Imagine the world classifying Barack Obama as a white man as a result of his white heritage? It would never happen."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>America\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one-drop rule<\/a>\u201d historically identified any individual with a single black ancestor as black, and therefore inferior. And while most of us these days know that \u201cracial purity\u201d is as grounded in reality as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mermaid\" target=\"_blank\">mermaids<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unicorn\" target=\"_blank\">unicorns<\/a>, the \u201cone-drop\u201d idea continues. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2010\/12\/one-drop-rule-persists\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard University psychologists<\/a> found that mixed-race individuals are still perceived as belonging to the racial group of their \u201clower-status\u201d parent. Imagine the world classifying <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> as a white man as a result of his white heritage? It would never happen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Claire Hynes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52978\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Dolezal\u2019s pick-your-race policy works brilliantly \u2013 as long as you\u2019re white<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Guardian<\/em>, March 27, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/mar\/27\/rachel-dolezal-race-white\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/mar\/27\/rachel-dolezal-race-white<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s \u201cone-drop rule\u201d historically identified any individual with a single black ancestor as black, and therefore inferior. And while most of us these days know that \u201cracial purity\u201d is as grounded in reality as mermaids and unicorns, the \u201cone-drop\u201d idea continues. Harvard University psychologists found that mixed-race individuals are still perceived as belonging to the racial group of their \u201clower-status\u201d parent. Imagine the world classifying Barack Obama as a white man as a result of his white heritage? It would never happen.<\/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":[26694,20241,2103],"class_list":["post-53007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-claire-hynes","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53007","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=53007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53008,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53007\/revisions\/53008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}