{"id":58560,"date":"2019-07-23T01:27:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T01:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58560"},"modified":"2019-07-23T01:27:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T01:27:54","slug":"and-while-its-important-to-talk-about-the-complexities-of-being-mixed-race-in-a-white-supremacist-society-its-also-important-that-we-dont-default-to-re-centering-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58560","title":{"rendered":"And while it\u2019s important to talk about the complexities of being mixed race in a white supremacist society, it\u2019s also important that we don\u2019t default to re-centering whiteness in those conversations."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In so many ways, the dominant images and stories around mixed race identities in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S.<\/a> revolve around folks who are half white, and\/or whose mixed race identity gives them a proximity to whiteness that other mixed race folks and people of color don\u2019t have. And while it\u2019s important to talk about the complexities of being mixed race in a white supremacist society, it\u2019s also important that we don\u2019t default to re-centering whiteness in those conversations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58554\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mixed Doesn\u2019t Always Mean Part White: Uplifting Non-White Mixed Race Identities<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Body Is Not An Apology<\/em>, July 8, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/thebodyisnotanapology.com\/magazine\/decentering-whiteness-on-facing-the-class-privilege-that-exists-in-mixed-race-asian-communities-beyond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/thebodyisnotanapology.com\/magazine\/decentering-whiteness-on-facing-the-class-privilege-that-exists-in-mixed-race-asian-communities-beyond\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In so many ways, the dominant images and stories around mixed race identities in the U.S. revolve around folks who are half white, and\/or whose mixed race identity gives them a proximity to whiteness that other mixed race folks and people of color don\u2019t have. And while it\u2019s important to talk about the complexities of [&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":[27138,28095],"class_list":["post-58560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-lisa-hofmann-kuroda","tag-the-body-is-not-an-apology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58560","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=58560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58561,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58560\/revisions\/58561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}