{"id":54622,"date":"2017-07-23T23:23:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T23:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54622"},"modified":"2017-07-23T23:23:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T23:23:13","slug":"europeans-invented-the-concept-of-race-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54622","title":{"rendered":"Europeans invented the concept of race as we know\u00a0it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Europeans invented the concept of race as we know\u00a0it<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Timeline<\/a>
\n2017-07<\/p>\n

Anjana Cruz<\/strong>, Anthropologist, Artist, Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nMildred and Richard Loving\u2019s interracial marriage was deemed illegal under Virginia\u2019s miscegenation laws<\/a>. In 1967 their conviction was overturned by a Supreme Court decision <\/a>ending all race-based marriage legislation. (AP)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Its origins can be traced to the colonization of the\u00a0Americas<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

What do you think of when you hear the word \u201cghetto?\u201d If you\u2019re like most people, you envision black and Latino urban areas. If you know your history, you might think of pre-World War II<\/a> Warsaw<\/a>, or the early 20th century migrations of Jews, Italians, and others to the lower East Side<\/a> tenements of Manhattan<\/a>. But what comes to mind for the majority of Americans are pictures of the Bronx<\/a>, Bedford Stuyvesant<\/a>, Newark<\/a>, Compton<\/a>, East LA<\/a>, West Town<\/a>, or Englewood<\/a>. Cities with recognizable earmarks: food deserts, poorly subsidized schools, and inadequate housing. And, like their urban counterparts and Native American reservations, most of these areas were designed to contain particular groups of people and control their movements through economic, political, and physical coercion. The plain fact is that while we sometimes associate ghettos with class, we most frequently see poverty associated with race. But what remains unknown to most Americans is the long and purposeful way that racial categories themselves were brought into existence. Race, as we currently understand it, as we currently live it, is almost entirely a product of the European imagination..<\/p>\n

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