{"id":54828,"date":"2017-08-17T04:17:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T04:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54828"},"modified":"2017-08-17T04:17:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T04:17:15","slug":"my-body-is-not-a-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54828","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy body is not a race.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/spu.edu\/academics\/school-of-theology\/undergraduate-programs\/undergraduate-faculty-staff\/bantum-brian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Brian] Bantum<\/a> explains his understanding of race as \u201cthe structure of death, the dehumanizing and de-creating word a people sought to speak over the world, and violently succeeded. Race is what overshadows the world, conceiving our bodies and their differences as something to be perpetually overcome.\u201d He later writes, \u201cMy body is not a race.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>La Reine-Marie Mosely, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54779\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Race and sovereignty, a story of the body<\/a>,\u201d <em>National Catholic Reporter<\/em>, May 3, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/books\/2017\/08\/race-and-sovereignty-story-body\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/books\/2017\/08\/race-and-sovereignty-story-body<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Brian] Bantum explains his understanding of race as \u201cthe structure of death, the dehumanizing and de-creating word a people sought to speak over the world, and violently succeeded. Race is what overshadows the world, conceiving our bodies and their differences as something to be perpetually overcome.\u201d He later writes, \u201cMy body is not a race.\u201d [&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":[5213,7149,7148,27430,26896],"class_list":["post-54828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-brian-bantum","tag-brian-k-bantum","tag-brian-keith-bantum","tag-la-reine-marie-mosely","tag-national-catholic-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54828","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=54828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54829,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54828\/revisions\/54829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}