{"id":62419,"date":"2021-11-29T02:24:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T02:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62419"},"modified":"2021-11-29T02:24:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T02:24:14","slug":"the-impact-of-the-browning-of-america-on-anti-blackness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62419","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of the Browning of America on Anti-Blackness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/14\/opinion\/latinos-colorism-anti-blackness.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Impact of the Browning of America on Anti-Blackness<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2021-11-14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CharlesMBlow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Charles M. Blow<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/14\/opinion\/latinos-colorism-anti-blackness.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 50%; border: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2021\/11\/16\/opinion\/14blow1a\/13blow1-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp\" \/><\/a><figcaption style=\"width: 50%; font-size: x-small;\">Ike Edeani for The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the things I often hear as a person who frequently writes about race, ethnicity and equality is that the browning of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America<\/a> \u2014 the coming shift of the country from mostly white to mostly nonwhite \u2014 is one of the greatest hopes in the fight against white supremacy and oppression.<\/p>\n<p>But this argument always flies too high to pay attention to the details on the ground. For me, white supremacy is only one foot of the beast. The other is anti-Blackness. You have to fight both.<\/p>\n<p>The sad reality is, however, that anti-Blackness \u2014 or anti-darkness, to remove the stricture of a single-race definition for the sake of this discussion \u2014 exists in societies around the world, including nonwhite ones.<\/p>\n<p>In too many societies across the globe, where a difference in skin tone exists, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">darker people are often assigned a lower caste<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/14\/opinion\/latinos-colorism-anti-blackness.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Impact of the Browning of America on Anti-Blackness The New York Times 2021-11-14 Charles M. Blow Ike Edeani for The New York Times One of the things I often hear as a person who frequently writes about race, ethnicity and equality is that the browning of America \u2014 the coming shift of the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,26,23674,20],"tags":[15262,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-62419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-charles-m-blow","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62419","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=62419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62420,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62419\/revisions\/62420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}