{"id":5854,"date":"2010-03-09T19:40:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T19:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2012-03-24T18:49:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T18:49:15","slug":"commentary-living-in-a-mixed-race-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5854","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: Living in a Mixed-Race America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Commentary: Living in a Mixed-Race America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Essence.com<\/a>
\nEssence Magazine
\n2009-10-20<\/p>\n

June Cross<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Journalism
\nColumbia University<\/em><\/p>\n

As if being married had anything to do with Blacks and Whites producing mixed-race children.<\/em><\/p>\n

That was my first thought upon reading that an elected official in Louisiana<\/a> had refused to marry a Black man and a White woman out of concern for what might happen to the children.<\/p>\n

Ever since African-Americans landed on these shores in chains, Black women carried the offspring of their White masters. And indentured women servants, often of Irish descent, bore the children of Black men back in the seventeenth century before <\/strong>Virginia<\/strong><\/a> became the first state in the union to make interracial marriage illegal in 1691…<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Where did a quarter million mixed race people go? Geneologists think they decided to pass<\/a> as White and mixed themselves right into the great American melting pot. Of course, in Louisiana, where race-mixing has been going on since before the birth of the nation, all you had to do was cross the county lines to disappear…<\/p>\n

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

Commentary: Living in a Mixed-Race America Essence.com Essence Magazine 2009-10-20 June Cross, Assistant Professor of Journalism Columbia University As if being married had anything to do with Blacks and Whites producing mixed-race children. That was my first thought upon reading that an elected official in Louisiana had refused to marry a Black man and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1467,369,6,26,394,20],"tags":[2426,363,20754],"class_list":["post-5854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-law","category-louisiana","category-new-media","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-essence-magazine","tag-june-cross","tag-louisiana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854","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=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}