{"id":53228,"date":"2017-04-03T02:48:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T02:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53228"},"modified":"2017-04-13T15:55:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T15:55:22","slug":"if-my-parents-had-instilled-any-italian-culture-in-me-i-might-want-to-share-that-with-my-son-but-if-youre-talking-about-general-whiteness-theres-nothing-there-to-pass-dow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53228","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIf my parents had instilled any Italian culture in me, I might want to share that with my son. But if you\u2019re talking about general whiteness, there\u2019s nothing there to pass down.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When my son first started to black identify at about 5 or 6 years old, an acquaintance of ours asked my husband, in my presence, if he felt like we were \u201cdepriving\u201d our son of his \u201cwhite side.\u201d My husband, a sociology professor and the author of two books on the failure of housing and school desegregation in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\">United States<\/a>, said: \u201cIf my parents had instilled any Italian culture in me, I might want to share that with my son. But if you\u2019re talking about general whiteness, there\u2019s nothing there to pass down.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rebecca Carroll, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53200\" target=\"_blank\">Black and Proud. Even if Strangers Can\u2019t Tell.<\/a>\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, April 1, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53200\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/01\/opinion\/sunday\/black-and-proud-even-if-strangers-cant-tell.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf my parents had instilled any Italian culture in me, I might want to share that with my son. But if you\u2019re talking about general whiteness, there\u2019s nothing there to pass down.\u201d<\/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":[2640,22899,2327],"class_list":["post-53228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-new-york-times","tag-rebecca-carroll","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53228","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=53228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53468,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53228\/revisions\/53468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}