{"id":55471,"date":"2017-12-26T22:53:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T22:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55471"},"modified":"2017-12-26T22:57:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T22:57:26","slug":"lets-talk-about-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55471","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Talk About Whiteness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/programs\/eula-biss-lets-talk-about-whiteness-jan2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Let&#8217;s Talk About Whiteness<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On Being<\/a><br \/>\n2017-01-19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kristatippett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Krista Tippett<\/strong><\/a>, Host\/Executive Producer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.northwestern.edu\/people\/faculty\/eula-biss.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Eula Biss<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Instruction<br \/>\nDepartment of English<br \/>\n<em>Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/programs\/eula-biss-lets-talk-about-whiteness-jan2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onbeing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AH_ONEEVERYONE_Meg.jpg?fit=1200%2C1100&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><em>Image by Ann Hamilton<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/303506165&amp;&amp;color=ff5500\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Could we learn to talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whiteness_studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whiteness<\/a>? The writer Eula Biss has been thinking and writing about being white and raising white children in a multi-racial world for a long time. She helpfully opens up words and ideas like \u201ccomplacence,\u201d \u201cguilt,\u201d and something related to privilege called \u201copportunity hoarding.\u201d To be in this uncomfortable conversation is to realize how these words alone, taken seriously, can shake us up in necessary ways \u2014 but also how the limits of words make these conversations at once more messy and more urgent.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview (00:51:21) <a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/programs\/eula-biss-lets-talk-about-whiteness-jan2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Download the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/303506165-eula-biss-lets-talk-about-whiteness.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Read the transcript <a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/programs\/eula-biss-lets-talk-about-whiteness-jan2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could we learn to talk about whiteness? The writer Eula Biss has been thinking and writing about being white and raising white children in a multi-racial world for a long time. She helpfully opens up words and ideas like \u201ccomplacence,\u201d \u201cguilt,\u201d and something related to privilege called \u201copportunity hoarding.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,414,13743,8,23674,20],"tags":[22200,27890,27888,27889],"class_list":["post-55471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-family","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-eula-biss","tag-krista-tippett","tag-on-being","tag-on-being-with-krista-tippett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55471","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=55471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55473,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55471\/revisions\/55473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}