{"id":53090,"date":"2017-03-30T02:12:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T02:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53090"},"modified":"2017-03-30T02:12:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T02:12:03","slug":"ironically-then-in-manifesting-her-blackness-she-most-flagrantly-manifests-her-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53090","title":{"rendered":"Ironically, then, in manifesting her blackness she most flagrantly manifests her whiteness."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Just as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\">[Donald] Trump<\/a> cannot seem to utter \u201cthe African Americans\u201d sans \u201cinner city,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rachel_Dolezal\" target=\"_blank\">[Rachel] Dolezal\u2019s<\/a> conception of blackness is steeped in a fetishizing of struggle, pain and oppression. Opting into the struggle is yet another place where her whiteness acutely rears its head. The choice to take on a racial mantle at will is a mark of white privilege; so, too, is the choice to take it off when it suits. Ironically, then, in manifesting her blackness she most flagrantly manifests her whiteness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Baz Dreisinger, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53025\" target=\"_blank\">When saying you\u2019re black and being black are two different things<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, March 24, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/when-saying-youre-black-and-being-black-are-two-different-things\/2017\/03\/24\/d41a6590-0a4b-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/when-saying-youre-black-and-being-black-are-two-different-things\/2017\/03\/24\/d41a6590-0a4b-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as [Donald] Trump cannot seem to utter \u201cthe African Americans\u201d sans \u201cinner city,\u201d [Rachel] Dolezal\u2019s conception of blackness is steeped in a fetishizing of struggle, pain and oppression. Opting into the struggle is yet another place where her whiteness acutely rears its head.<\/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":[2710,20241,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-53090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-baz-dreisinger","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53090","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=53090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53092,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53090\/revisions\/53092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}