{"id":56451,"date":"2018-05-20T01:33:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T01:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56451"},"modified":"2018-05-20T01:33:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T01:33:15","slug":"i-identify-in-a-category-not-formalized-or-accepted-in-colonial-census-charts-or-western-ways-of-understanding-the-other-as-a-black-south-asian-i-am-an-indian-who-lays-claim-to-the-global-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56451","title":{"rendered":"I identify in a category not formalized or accepted in colonial census charts or western ways of understanding the other, as a black South Asian. I am an Indian who lays claim to the global community of black consciousness, and I reside between so many worlds of belonging and unbelonging."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I identify in a category not formalized or accepted in colonial census charts or western ways of understanding the other, as a black South Asian. I am an Indian who lays claim to the global community of black consciousness, and I reside between so many worlds of belonging and unbelonging. In racializing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">colorism<\/a> and politicizing my own experience of antipathy witnessed toward the color of my skin, I crafted my own passport into marooned and shapeshifting black communities that gave credence to ontologies and a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/posteriori\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posteriori<\/a> narratives over normative constructions of race, ethnicities, and nationalities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shreerekha, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56439\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In the Wake of His Damage<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Rumpus<\/em>, May 12, 2018. <a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2018\/05\/in-the-wake-of-his-damage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2018\/05\/in-the-wake-of-his-damage\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I identify in a category not formalized or accepted in colonial census charts or western ways of understanding the other, as a black South Asian. I am an Indian who lays claim to the global community of black consciousness, and I reside between so many worlds of belonging and unbelonging. In racializing colorism and politicizing [&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":[28682,14306],"class_list":["post-56451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-shreerekha","tag-the-rumpus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56451","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=56451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56452,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56451\/revisions\/56452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}