{"id":56210,"date":"2018-04-19T00:47:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T00:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56210"},"modified":"2018-04-19T01:06:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T01:06:39","slug":"in-black-and-white-a-hermeneutic-argument-against-transracialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56210","title":{"rendered":"In Black and White: A Hermeneutic Argument against &#8220;Transracialism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdcnet.org\/resphilosophica\/content\/resphilosophica_2018_0095_0002_0303_0329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>In Black and White: A Hermeneutic Argument against &#8220;Transracialism&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdcnet.org\/resphilosophica\/Res-Philosophica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Res Philosophica<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdcnet.org\/collection-anonymous\/browse?fp=resphilosophica&amp;fq=resphilosophica%2FVolume%2F8905%7C95%2F8998%7CIssue%3A%202%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volume 95, Issue 2, April 2018<\/a><br \/>\nPages 303-329<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tina_Fernandes_Botts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tina Fernandes Botts<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Philosophy<br \/>\n<em>California State University, Fresno<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transracial_(identity)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transracialism<\/a>, defined as both experiencing oneself as, and <em>being<\/em>, a race other than the race assigned to one by society, does not exist. Translated into <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hermeneutics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hermeneutics<\/a>, transracialism is an unintelligible phenomenon in the specific sociocultural context of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a> in the early twenty-first century. Within this context, race is a function of ancestry, and is therefore defined in terms of something that is external to the self and unchangeable. Since transracialism does not exist, the question of whether transracialism would be ethically advisable if it did exist is inapposite. Nonetheless, at a minimum we can say that <em>racial transition<\/em> (defined as attempting to change one\u2019s race through artificial and\/or associative changes, and living life as a race other than the race assigned to one by society, etc.) is possible, but is very likely unethical, since it is the same as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racial passing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdcnet.org\/resphilosophica\/content\/resphilosophica_2018_0095_0002_0303_0329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transracialism, defined as both experiencing oneself as, and BEING, a race other than the race assigned to one by society, does not exist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,6462,6941,20],"tags":[28465,28466,14850,28464],"class_list":["post-56210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-philosophy","category-usa","tag-hermeneutics","tag-res-philosophica","tag-tina-fernandes-botts","tag-transracialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56210","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=56210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56212,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56210\/revisions\/56212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}