{"id":54291,"date":"2017-06-27T00:09:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T00:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54291"},"modified":"2017-06-27T00:09:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T00:09:45","slug":"but-this-is-the-history-of-race-in-america-families-can-become-black-then-white-then-black-again-within-a-few-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54291","title":{"rendered":"But this is the history of race in America. Families can become black, then white, then black again within a few generations."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We have been warned not to get under one another\u2019s skin, to keep our distance. But <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jordan_Peele\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jordan Peele\u2019s<\/a> horror-fantasy\u2014in which we are inside one another\u2019s skin and intimately involved in one another\u2019s suffering\u2014is neither a horror nor a fantasy. It is a fact of our experience. The real fantasy is that we can get out of one another\u2019s way, make a clean cut between black and white, a final cathartic separation between us and them. For the many of us in loving, mixed families, this is the true impossibility. There are people online who seem astounded that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Get_Out_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Get Out<\/em><\/a> was written and directed by a man with a white wife and a white mother, a man who may soon have\u2014depending on how the unpredictable phenotype lottery goes\u2014a white-appearing child. But this is the history of race in America. Families can become black, then white, then black again within a few generations. And even when Americans are not genetically mixed, they live in a mixed society at the national level if no other. There is no getting out of our intertwined history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Zadie Smith, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54268\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Getting In and Out<\/a>,\u201d <em>Harper\u2019s Magazine<\/em>, July 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2017\/07\/getting-in-and-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2017\/07\/getting-in-and-out\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been warned not to get under one another\u2019s skin, to keep our distance. But Jordan Peele\u2019s horror-fantasy\u2014in which we are inside one another\u2019s skin and intimately involved in one another\u2019s suffering\u2014is neither a horror nor a fantasy. It is a fact of our experience. The real fantasy is that we can get out [&hellip;]<\/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":[27148,16433,1344],"class_list":["post-54291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-harpers-magazine","tag-jordan-peele","tag-zadie-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54291","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=54291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54292,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54291\/revisions\/54292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}