{"id":61947,"date":"2021-10-26T01:44:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T01:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61947"},"modified":"2021-10-26T14:05:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T14:05:27","slug":"playing-the-white-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61947","title":{"rendered":"Playing the White Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theracialimaginary.org\/issue\/the-whiteness-issue\/martha-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Playing the White Card<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theracialimaginary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Racial Imaginary<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theracialimaginary.org\/issue\/the-whiteness-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Whiteness Issue (September 2017)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/history.jhu.edu\/directory\/martha-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Martha S. Jones<\/strong><\/a>, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/517904361?h=755cf5a185\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Through prose and performance, Martha S. Jones examines the cruel, curious, and comical dimensions of the mixed-race experience. With the pathos of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tragic mulatto<\/a> in mind, she gets beyond simple renderings of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one-drop rule<\/a> by exploring family history, her ambiguous appearance, and shifting ideas about racial categories. If race is a social construction it is also a lie, one that Jones exposes through reflections on everyday scenes of race-making. Her work is for those for who checking boxes elicits a shudder, while also speaking to anyone who finds themselves in-between and misunderstood by the sociological categories that organize our world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through prose and performance, Martha S. Jones examines the cruel, curious, and comical dimensions of the mixed-race experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,1245,459,8,6462,394,20,842],"tags":[17140,16971,5754,32190],"class_list":["post-61947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-videos","tag-martha-jones","tag-martha-s-jones","tag-michigan","tag-the-racial-imaginary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61947","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=61947"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61953,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61947\/revisions\/61953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}