{"id":60535,"date":"2021-02-09T20:26:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T20:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60535"},"modified":"2021-02-09T20:26:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T20:26:26","slug":"we-tend-to-believe-that-people-can-have-only-one-ethno-racial-background-and-that-this-identity-is-fixed-when-in-fact-it-can-be-quite-fluid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60535","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe tend to believe that people can have only one ethno-racial background and that this identity is fixed when in fact it can be quite fluid.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019ve allowed ideas about race to loom very large,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gc.cuny.edu\/Page-Elements\/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives\/Doctoral-Programs\/Sociology\/Faculty-Bios\/Richard-Alba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mr. [Richard] Alba<\/a>. \u201cWe tend to believe that people can have only one ethno-racial background and that this identity is fixed when in fact it can be quite fluid.\u201d This in turn has corrupted political thinking, especially among Democrats who accept the demography-is-destiny theory\u2014the notion that they need only bide their time and minority voters will put them into a position of unassailable political power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John J. Miller, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Majority Minority\u2019 America? Don\u2019t Bet on It<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, February 7, 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/majority-minority-america-dont-bet-on-it-11612549609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/majority-minority-america-dont-bet-on-it-11612549609<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve allowed ideas about race to loom very large,\u201d says Mr. [Richard] Alba. \u201cWe tend to believe that people can have only one ethno-racial background and that this identity is fixed when in fact it can be quite fluid.\u201d This in turn has corrupted political thinking, especially among Democrats who accept the demography-is-destiny theory\u2014the notion [&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":[31287,31288,9186,5102],"class_list":["post-60535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-john-j-miller","tag-john-joseph-miller","tag-richard-alba","tag-the-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60535","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=60535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60536,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60535\/revisions\/60536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}