{"id":55560,"date":"2018-01-22T01:44:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T01:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55560"},"modified":"2018-01-22T01:44:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T01:44:22","slug":"one-drop-of-blood-the-american-misadventure-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55560","title":{"rendered":"One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780374527945\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/publishers\/farrar-straus-giroux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Farrar, Straus and Giroux<\/a><br \/>\n2000-10-01<br \/>\n544 Pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN-13: 978-0374240790<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smalcomson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Scott Malcomson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780374527945\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.macmillan.com\/folio-assets\/macmillan_us_frontbookcovers_1000H\/9780374527945.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why has a nation founded upon precepts of freedom and universal humanity continually produced, through its preoccupation with race, a divided and constrained populace? Scott Malcomson&#8217;s search for an answer took him across the country\u2014to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cherokee_Nation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cherokee Nation<\/a>, an all-black town, and a white supremacist enclave in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oklahoma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oklahoma<\/a>\u2014back though the tangled red-white-and-black history of America from colonial times onward, and to his own childhood in racially fractured <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oakland,_California\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland, California<\/a>. By not only recounting our shared tragicomedy of race but helping us to own it\u2014even to embrace it\u2014this important book offers us a way at last to move beyond it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000-10-01 544 Pages Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0374240790 Scott Malcomson Why has a nation founded upon precepts of freedom and universal humanity continually produced, through its preoccupation with race, a divided and constrained populace? Scott Malcomson&#8217;s search for an answer took him across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,8,17,20],"tags":[16429,27940],"class_list":["post-55560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-farrar-straus-and-giroux","tag-scott-malcomson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55560","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=55560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55561,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55560\/revisions\/55561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}