{"id":58612,"date":"2019-07-29T18:21:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T18:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58612"},"modified":"2019-07-30T14:44:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T14:44:05","slug":"racism-is-a-clever-shapeshifter-i-have-been-looking-for-a-while-for-a-mixed-community-that-resists-holds-fast-to-a-hard-edge-refuses-to-re-inscribe-and-pushes-forward-transformative-dialogue-midw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58612","title":{"rendered":"Racism is a clever shapeshifter. I have been looking for a while for a mixed community that resists, holds fast to a hard edge, refuses to re-inscribe, and pushes forward transformative dialogue. Midwest Mixed IS that community."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As more people claim a multiracial identity, and it subsequently becomes more mainstream, I have been disturbed to also see a lot of mixed-race work rewrite white supremacist ideologies of old (e.g. postracialism, excluding non-white mixed people, not naming race, anti-blackness, etc.). Same oppression, different era, under somewhat changed circumstances. Racism is a clever shapeshifter. I have been looking for a while for a mixed community that resists, holds fast to a hard edge, refuses to re-inscribe, and pushes forward transformative dialogue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestmixed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Midwest Mixed<\/a> <em>is<\/em> that community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sharon H. Chang, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58606\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Midwest Mixed: Taking the lead on antiracist conversations about multiraciality<\/a>,\u201d <em>Sharon H. Chang, author | photographer | activist<\/em>, July 25, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/sharonhchang.com\/2019\/07\/25\/4943\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/sharonhchang.com\/2019\/07\/25\/4943\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As more people claim a multiracial identity, and it subsequently becomes more mainstream, I have been disturbed to also see a lot of mixed-race work rewrite white supremacist ideologies of old (e.g. postracialism, excluding non-white mixed people, not naming race, anti-blackness, etc.). Same oppression, different era, under somewhat changed circumstances. Racism is a clever shapeshifter. [&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":[29623,14613,16773],"class_list":["post-58612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-midwest-mixed","tag-sharon-chang","tag-sharon-h-chang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58612","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=58612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58613,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58612\/revisions\/58613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}