{"id":58786,"date":"2019-08-30T16:15:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58786"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:24:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:24:23","slug":"the-fiction-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58786","title":{"rendered":"The Fiction of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fiction of Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The American Scholar<\/a>
\n2019-08-07<\/p>\n

Thomas Chatterton Williams<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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When will we recognize it as such?<\/em><\/p>\n

Almost every summer, my wife and I, now with two kids in tow, spend a couple of weeks in Italy<\/a>. We first fell in love with the Ligurian<\/a> coast just beyond France<\/a> and Monaco<\/a>, then with the Tuscan<\/a> countryside around Florence<\/a>, and for the past several summers, the islands off Naples<\/a>. This year, we went farther south, into the instep of the boot<\/a>, and are staying at a family-run agriturismo<\/em><\/a> on the Mediterranean<\/a> coast of Calabria<\/a>. Along with several other friends, my brother and his blond-haired, tan-skinned half-Russian five-year-old daughter have joined us. This morning, the two of us drove into the small seaside village down the hill from where we\u2019re staying to pick up some pizzas. I went inside and fumbled my way through the somewhat complicated order that demanded anchovies, artichokes, and for one picky eater, a tomato-less pizza…<\/p>\n

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