{"id":54601,"date":"2017-07-21T19:27:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T19:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54601"},"modified":"2017-07-21T19:27:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T19:27:08","slug":"ive-been-privy-to-a-lot-of-racism-and-conversations-in-rooms-where-i-unintentionally-disappeared-into-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54601","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019ve been privy to a lot of racism and conversations in rooms where I unintentionally disappeared into whiteness&#8230;\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cSo for me, I\u2019m not so much writing about race as I am writing about America. And to me, the American story is one of race, money and class. We do live in a racialized world, and I\u2019ve spent my whole life in this space. I find it strange when writers don\u2019t address it. I\u2019m almost always assumed to be white. I\u2019ve been privy to a lot of racism and conversations in rooms where I unintentionally disappeared into whiteness. I think there were periods when it was a struggle. But I\u2019m at a place in my life when I\u2019m very clear on who I am, my own story and who I come from.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danzysenna.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Danzy Senna<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Donna Owens, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBCBLK Summer Book Club: \u2018New People\u2019 by Danzy Senna<\/a>,\u201d <em>NBC News<\/em>, July 14, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/blk-summer-book-club-new-people-danzy-senna-n782806\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/blk-summer-book-club-new-people-danzy-senna-n782806<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo for me, I\u2019m not so much writing about race as I am writing about America. And to me, the American story is one of race, money and class. We do live in a racialized world, and I\u2019ve spent my whole life in this space. I find it strange when writers don\u2019t address it. I\u2019m [&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":[1340,27336,15127,21177],"class_list":["post-54601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-danzy-senna","tag-donna-owens","tag-nbc-news","tag-nbcblk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54601","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=54601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54602,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54601\/revisions\/54602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}