{"id":55311,"date":"2017-11-29T21:43:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T21:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55311"},"modified":"2017-11-29T21:43:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T21:43:41","slug":"why-calling-elizabeth-warren-pocahontas-is-a-slur-against-all-mixed-race-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55311","title":{"rendered":"Why calling Elizabeth Warren \u2018Pocahontas\u2019 is a slur against all mixed-race Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why calling Elizabeth Warren \u2018Pocahontas\u2019 is a slur against all mixed-race Americans<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2017-11-29<\/p>\n

Martha S. Jones<\/strong><\/a>, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History
\nJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nElizabeth Warren\u2019s<\/a> embrace of her mixed-race ancestry has become a political weapon in the hands of her opponents. (AP)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

It\u2019s part of the long history of erasing people of mixed heritage.<\/em><\/p>\n

President Trump\u2019s<\/a> assault on Sen. Elizabeth Warren<\/a> descended to a new low Monday<\/a>. Calling the Massachusetts<\/a> leader \u201cPocahontas\u201d during a ceremony honoring Native American code-talker<\/a> veterans, Trump not only slurred Warren \u2014 he slurred all American families whose histories include ancestors of differing races.<\/p>\n

By now Warren\u2019s story is familiar. When registering with the American Association of Law Schools between 1986 and 1995, she checked an \u201cIndian\u201d box to describe her ancestry. When pressed by critics who questioned her background, Warren explained that she was \u201cproud\u201d of her Native heritage as passed down to her by stories told by her parents and grandparents.<\/p>\n

Critics accuse Warren of leveraging her \u201cminority\u201d status to snag a job at Harvard Law School in 1992. Others charge that Warren\u2019s self-identification was strategic and, even worse, illegitimate. How, they ask, could a woman who is by her own telling no more than 1\/32 Native American claim to be anything other than white?<\/p>\n

The answer is that Warren, like millions of other Americans, is mixed-race, and percentages shouldn\u2019t matter when we consider such ancestry…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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