{"id":55565,"date":"2018-01-22T02:13:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T02:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55565"},"modified":"2018-01-22T04:54:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T04:54:23","slug":"when-a-white-person-tells-me-youre-basically-white-what-i-really-hear-is-repudiation-for-wanting-to-identify-with-blackness-when-my-own-racial-integrity-is-undermined-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55565","title":{"rendered":"When a white person tells me \u2018you\u2019re basically white\u2019, what I really hear is repudiation for wanting to identify with blackness. When my own racial integrity is undermined with this statement, I am told that I should allow myself to be classified by the oppressor."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When a white person tells me \u2018you\u2019re basically white\u2019, what I really hear is repudiation for wanting to identify with blackness. When my own racial integrity is undermined with this statement, I am told that I should allow myself to be classified by the oppressor. When the history of my ancestors is erased, I ask myself why I should not be allowed to explore the entirety of my history whilst white people alter theirs to pander to their own self-denial. And I fail to understand why they will tell me that I am \u2018basically white\u2019 sometimes, but implicitly or explicitly emphasise that I\u2019m \u2018brown\u2019 the next.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sam Kaner, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018You\u2019re basically white\u2019: my blackness on debate<\/a>,\u201d <em>Media Diversified<\/em>, September 11, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/mediadiversified.org\/2017\/09\/11\/youre-basically-white-my-blackness-on-debate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/mediadiversified.org\/2017\/09\/11\/youre-basically-white-my-blackness-on-debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a white person tells me \u2018you\u2019re basically white\u2019, what I really hear is repudiation for wanting to identify with blackness. When my own racial integrity is undermined with this statement, I am told that I should allow myself to be classified by the oppressor. When the history of my ancestors is erased, I ask [&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":[16878,27941],"class_list":["post-55565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-media-diversified","tag-sam-kaner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55565","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=55565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55566,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55565\/revisions\/55566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}