{"id":53197,"date":"2017-04-02T15:52:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T15:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53197"},"modified":"2017-04-02T15:52:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T15:52:19","slug":"diversity-doesnt-make-racism-magically-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53197","title":{"rendered":"Diversity doesn’t make racism magically disappear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diversity doesn’t make racism magically disappear<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2017-04-01<\/p>\n

Daniel Jos\u00e9 Camacho<\/strong><\/a>
\nDuke Divinity School<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n\u2018Consider Brazil<\/a>. There, white people are a minority \u2013 but are still dominant.\u2019 Photograph: Brazil Photos\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Some hope that changing demographics make us destined to be post-racial. It isn\u2019t so simple<\/em><\/p>\n

We can\u2019t screw our way beyond racism. Many think mixed-race babies and browner demographics will automatically usher in a post-racial world. They interpret the projections of a \u201cmajority-minority\u201d shift in our nation \u2013 now set to take place in 2044<\/a> \u2013 as a sign of guaranteed progress. Changing faces<\/a> in the US are seen as anti-racist destiny. But don\u2019t overestimate the power of this post-racial cocktail.<\/p>\n

Jordan Peele\u2019s<\/a> brilliant film Get Out<\/em><\/a> reminds me of the importance of questioning overly optimistic narratives of racial progress. Made by someone who has been open about being biracial and married to a white women, this film creatively uses the genre of horror to depict the persistence of racism through a story about an interracial couple. In many ways, it can be seen as a strident critique of a liberal brand of racism that has blossomed in the post-Obama<\/a> era…<\/p>\n

…If more mixed people guarantee greater tolerance, then Brazil<\/a> \u2013 and most of Latin America<\/a> \u2013 should be a racial paradise. Although a great degree of \u2018mestizaje<\/a>\u2019 or racial mixing has taken place since the time of conquest, Indigenous and Afro-descendent people in Latin America remain disproportionately poor, discriminated against, and locked out from opportunity.<\/p>\n

Sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva<\/a>, in his book Racism without Racists<\/em><\/a>, has speculated whether the racial order in the US might eventually resemble that of Latin American and Caribbean nations. In this case, white supremacy and racial stratification will continue to operate in the US even as it becomes a \u201cmajority-minority\u201d nation…<\/p>\n

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

Some hope that changing demographics make us destined to be post-racial. It isn\u2019t so simple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,33,8,394,20],"tags":[26772,319,2103],"class_list":["post-53197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-census","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-daniel-jose-camacho","tag-eduardo-bonilla-silva","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53197","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=53197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53198,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53197\/revisions\/53198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}