{"id":56062,"date":"2018-03-30T02:37:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T02:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56062"},"modified":"2018-03-30T02:37:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T02:37:59","slug":"race-is-a-power-relationship-racial-categories-are-not-about-interesting-cultural-or-physical-differences-but-about-putting-other-people-into-groups-in-order-to-dominate-exploit-and-attack-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56062","title":{"rendered":"Race is a power relationship; racial categories are not about interesting cultural or physical differences, but about putting other people into groups in order to dominate, exploit and attack them."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To really grasp race, we must accept a double paradox. The first one is a truism of antiracist educators: we can see race, but it\u2019s not real. The second is stranger: race has real consequences, but we can\u2019t see it with the naked eye. Race is a power relationship; racial categories are not about interesting cultural or physical differences, but about putting other people into groups in order to dominate, exploit and attack them. Fundamentally, race makes power visible by assigning it to physical bodies. The evidence of race right before our eyes is <em>not<\/em> a visual trace of a physical reality, but a by-product of social perceptions, in which we are trained to see certain features as salient or significant. Race does not exist as a matter of biological fact, but only as a consequence of a process of <em>racialisation<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gregory Smithsimon, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56060\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to see race<\/a>,\u201d <em>Aeon<\/em>, March 26, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/race-is-not-real-what-you-see-is-a-power-relationship-made-flesh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/race-is-not-real-what-you-see-is-a-power-relationship-made-flesh<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To really grasp race, we must accept a double paradox. The first one is a truism of antiracist educators: we can see race, but it\u2019s not real. The second is stranger: race has real consequences, but we can\u2019t see it with the naked eye. Race is a power relationship; racial categories are not about interesting [&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":[25740,28275,28274],"class_list":["post-56062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-aeon","tag-gregory-c-smithsimon","tag-gregory-smithsimon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56062","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=56062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56063,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56062\/revisions\/56063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}