{"id":61060,"date":"2021-07-14T18:08:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T18:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61060"},"modified":"2021-07-14T18:08:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T18:08:11","slug":"whiteness-is-inherently-oppressive-and-racist-because-the-history-of-the-concept-has-been-intrinsically-bound-up-with-creating-and-maintaining-a-racial-hierarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61060","title":{"rendered":"Whiteness\u00a0IS\u00a0inherently oppressive and racist because the history of the concept has been intrinsically bound up with creating and maintaining a racial hierarchy."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whiteness_studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whiteness<\/a>\u00a0<em>is<\/em>\u00a0inherently oppressive and racist because the history of the concept has been intrinsically bound up with creating and maintaining a racial hierarchy. It has no history separate and apart from oppression. But the people\u00a0<em>called white<\/em>\u00a0are not the problem. In fact, the anti-racist position is that whiteness was something\u00a0<em>done<\/em>\u00a0to so-called white people, which those of us so-called should reject.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tim Wise, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61052\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Problem Isn\u2019t White People \u2014 It\u2019s Whiteness, People<\/a>,\u201c <em>Tim Wise<\/em>, July 12, 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/timjwise.medium.com\/the-problem-isnt-white-people-it-s-whiteness-people-5581698ea02e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/timjwise.medium.com\/the-problem-isnt-white-people-it-s-whiteness-people-5581698ea02e<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whiteness\u00a0is\u00a0inherently oppressive and racist because the history of the concept has been intrinsically bound up with creating and maintaining a racial hierarchy. It has no history separate and apart from oppression. But the people\u00a0called white\u00a0are not the problem. In fact, the anti-racist position is that whiteness was something\u00a0done\u00a0to so-called white people, which those of us [&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":[7870],"class_list":["post-61060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-tim-wise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61060","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=61060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61061,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61060\/revisions\/61061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}