{"id":57203,"date":"2018-12-31T04:29:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T04:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57203"},"modified":"2018-12-31T04:29:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T04:29:45","slug":"historically-in-the-united-states-if-you-had-one-drop-of-black-blood-you-were-defined-as-black-you-had-various-names-for-people-who-looked-as-white-as-their-master-but-they-were-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57203","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHistorically, in the United States, if you had one drop of black blood, you were defined as black. You had various names for people who looked as white as their master, but they were defined as black. I didn&#8217;t grow up identifying as black because of that \u2014 for me it was more about pride, culture and my parents&#8217; politics.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cHistorically, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a>, if you had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one drop of black blood, you were defined as black<\/a>. You had various names for people who looked as white as their master, but they were defined as black. I didn&#8217;t grow up identifying as black because of that \u2014 for me it was more about pride, culture and my parents&#8217; politics. But Maria, like me, walks into a room and people don&#8217;t see that she&#8217;s black. She deals with that as a conflict more than just the fact of being mixed. If you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pass as white<\/a> in the world but know yourself not to be white, you&#8217;re privy to all those uncensored comments about black people that other black people sort of in liberal circles are shielded from. You&#8217;re constantly aware of this kind of mask falling away.\u201d\u00a0\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danzysenna.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Danzy Senna<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eleanor Wachtel, <span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Danzy Senna&#8217;s darkly comic take on racial identity<\/a>,<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u201d<\/span> <em>Writers &amp; Company with Eleanor Wachtel, CBC Radio<\/em>, June 15, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/writersandcompany\/danzy-senna-s-darkly-comic-take-on-racial-identity-1.4707804\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/writersandcompany\/danzy-senna-s-darkly-comic-take-on-racial-identity-1.4707804<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHistorically, in the United States, if you had one drop of black blood, you were defined as black. You had various names for people who looked as white as their master, but they were defined as black. I didn&#8217;t grow up identifying as black because of that \u2014 for me it was more about pride, [&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":[21842,13560,25461,1340,29212,29210,29209,29211],"class_list":["post-57203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-canadian-broadcasting-corporation","tag-cbc","tag-cbc-radio","tag-danzy-senna","tag-eleanor-wachtel","tag-writers-company","tag-writers-company-with-eleanor-wachtel","tag-writers-and-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57203","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=57203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57205,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57203\/revisions\/57205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}