{"id":56564,"date":"2018-06-14T18:17:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T18:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56564"},"modified":"2018-06-14T19:59:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T19:59:04","slug":"carina-ray-fuses-scholarship-and-teaching-with-personal-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56564","title":{"rendered":"Carina Ray fuses scholarship and teaching with personal experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carina Ray fuses scholarship and teaching with personal experience<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Brandeis Now<\/a>
\nWaltham, Massachusetts
\n2017-12-17<\/p>\n

Jarret Bencks<\/strong><\/a>
\nOffice of Communications<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Carina<\/a>
\nCarina Ray<\/a> in the classroom<\/small><\/p>\n

Almost 25 years ago, historian Carina Ray<\/a> spent her junior year abroad as an undergraduate studying in Ghana<\/a>. She planned to explore her Puerto Rican family\u2019s African roots.<\/p>\n

Most Ghanaians she met insisted she was white, despite her longwinded explanations about her multiracial background. Eventually, she realized it would be smarter to talk less and listen more.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was enthralled by what Ghanaians had to say about their own perceptions of blackness and how race works there,\u201d says Ray, associate professor of African and Afro-American studies<\/a> (AAAS). The seeds of Ray\u2019s career were planted.<\/p>\n

By the time she returned to the University of California, Santa Cruz, to finish her bachelor\u2019s degree, Ray knew she wanted to study what it means to be black in West Africa \u2014 from an African perspective. The history of race in Africa<\/a> was rarely written about from an African perspective, and it became the focus of her PhD in African history at Cornell University…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI was enthralled by what Ghanaians had to say about their own perceptions of blackness and how race works there,\u201d says Ray, associate professor of African and Afro-American studies (AAAS). The seeds of Ray\u2019s career were planted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,1245,2895,459,8,20],"tags":[25580,5349,5490,3224,7817,25579],"class_list":["post-56564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-biography","category-campus-life","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-brandeis-now","tag-brandeis-university","tag-carina-e-ray","tag-carina-ray","tag-ghana","tag-jarret-bencks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56564","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=56564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56571,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56564\/revisions\/56571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}