{"id":54045,"date":"2017-05-28T21:14:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T21:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54045"},"modified":"2017-05-28T21:15:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T21:15:35","slug":"as-a-white-supremacist-society-the-united-states-privileges-rachel-dolezals-challenging-ethnoracial-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54045","title":{"rendered":"As a white supremacist society, the United States privileges Dolezal\u2019s challenging ethnoracial boundaries."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As a white supremacist society, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United States<\/a> privileges <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rachel_Dolezal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Rachel] Dolezal\u2019s<\/a> challenging ethnoracial boundaries. This is so unlike the thousands of blacks who quietly dissolved into the white population a century ago. A media stir would have cost them their lives. Even <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anatole_Broyard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anatole Broyard<\/a>, the <em>New York Times<\/em> film critic who passed away in 1990 took his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hidden blackness <\/a>to the grave to be taken seriously in his career as a writer. At the same time, unlike the acceptance that many Afro-Brazilians have for their <em>negra frustradas<\/em>, many Afro-Americans find her problematic at best. Their relatives and ancestors who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed as white<\/a> (or do so now) do not receive the same rewards. Instead, it has to be quiet without any fuss, for fear of upsetting the status quo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chinyere Osuji, Ph.D., \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rachel Dolezal: \u2018Negra Frustrada\u2019 (Frustrated Black Woman)<\/a>,\u201d <em>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey<\/em>, May 24, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/chinyereosuji.camden.rutgers.edu\/2017\/05\/24\/rachel-dolezal-negra-frustrada-frustrated-black-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/chinyereosuji.camden.rutgers.edu\/2017\/05\/24\/rachel-dolezal-negra-frustrada-frustrated-black-woman\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a white supremacist society, the United States privileges Dolezal\u2019s challenging ethnoracial boundaries. This is so unlike the thousands of blacks who quietly dissolved into the white population a century ago. A media stir would have cost them their lives.<\/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":[16463,20241,2536],"class_list":["post-54045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-chinyere-osuji","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-rutgers-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54045","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=54045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54047,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54045\/revisions\/54047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}