{"id":63869,"date":"2022-05-17T01:05:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T01:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63869"},"modified":"2022-05-17T01:05:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T01:05:08","slug":"black-success-in-the-skillful-work-of-passing-itself-as-well-as-in-endeavors-passers-pursue-once-they-access-opportunities-they-had-been-denied-disrupts-the-ideological-backbone-of-rac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63869","title":{"rendered":"Black success\u2014in the skillful work of passing itself as well as in endeavors passers pursue once they access opportunities they had been denied\u2014disrupts the ideological backbone of racial injustice, enacting a reductio of white superiority and revealing whites to be easily fooled. Successful acts of fugitivity achieved by passing also serve to undermine the hegemony of oppression, disrupting its ideological functioning as a natural or inescapable condition."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Conversely, it is essential to recognize that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[racial] passing<\/a> can take on an ethical and political significance by exposing the internal contradictions and contingency of seemingly totalizing systems of oppression, revealing gaps and openings for liberation and working to create and exploit them. Black success\u2014in the skillful work of passing itself as well as in endeavors passers pursue once they access opportunities they had been denied\u2014disrupts the ideological backbone of racial injustice, enacting a reductio of white superiority and revealing whites to be easily fooled. Successful acts of fugitivity achieved by passing also serve to undermine the hegemony of oppression, disrupting its ideological functioning as a natural or inescapable condition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meena Krishnamurthy, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Burdened Virtue of Racial Passing<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Boston Review<\/em>, May 13, 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonreview.net\/articles\/the-burdened-virtue-of-racial-passing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bostonreview.net\/articles\/the-burdened-virtue-of-racial-passing\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conversely, it is essential to recognize that [racial] passing can take on an ethical and political significance by exposing the internal contradictions and contingency of seemingly totalizing systems of oppression, revealing gaps and openings for liberation and working to create and exploit them. Black success\u2014in the skillful work of passing itself as well as in [&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":[11064,31930,33533],"class_list":["post-63869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-boston-review","tag-meena-krishnamurthy","tag-the-boston-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63869","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=63869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63870,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63869\/revisions\/63870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}