{"id":63892,"date":"2022-05-20T21:29:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T21:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63892"},"modified":"2022-06-21T13:35:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T13:35:20","slug":"i-am-a-white-woman-who-married-a-black-man-and-had-a-black-baby-said-amanda-lewis-a-sociologist-who-runs-the-institute-for-research-on-race-and-public-policy-at-the-university-of-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63892","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI am a White woman who married a Black man and had a Black baby,\u201d said Amanda Lewis, a sociologist who runs the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For some people, identifying themselves as more than one race matters little if Americans tend to put people in either the \u201cBlack\u201d or \u201cWhite\u201d categories. Former <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Barack Obama<\/a>, who has a White mother though he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2008\/01\/09\/17958438\/why-obama-chooses-black-over-biracial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">identifies as Black<\/a>, has described being mistaken for a waiter or parking valet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2014\/12\/17\/president-obama-theres-no-black-man-my-age-who-hasnt-been-confused-for-a-valet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">before he was famous<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a White woman who married a Black man and had a Black baby,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/soc.uic.edu\/profiles\/amanda-lewis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amanda Lewis<\/a>, a sociologist who runs the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the way others see her. That\u2019s the way we think of her,\u201d Lewis said of her daughter. \u201cThe opposite doesn\u2019t happen. Instead of trying to make White people more comfortable, we need to embrace the multiracial democracy we\u2019ve become.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tim Henderson, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Multiracial Residents Are Changing the Face of the US<\/a>,\u201d <em>Stateline<\/em>, May 13, 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/blogs\/stateline\/2022\/05\/13\/multiracial-residents-are-changing-the-face-of-the-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/blogs\/stateline\/2022\/05\/13\/multiracial-residents-are-changing-the-face-of-the-us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some people, identifying themselves as more than one race matters little if Americans tend to put people in either the \u201cBlack\u201d or \u201cWhite\u201d categories. Former President Barack Obama, who has a White mother though he identifies as Black, has described being mistaken for a waiter or parking valet before he was famous. \u201cI am [&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":[33540,33539,33538,33537],"class_list":["post-63892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-amanda-lewis","tag-pew-charitable-trusts","tag-stateline","tag-tim-henderson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63892","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=63892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63915,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63892\/revisions\/63915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}