{"id":6990,"date":"2010-05-04T21:50:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T21:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6990"},"modified":"2011-10-27T19:37:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:37:12","slug":"the-president-the-professor-and-the-wide-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6990","title":{"rendered":"The President, the Professor, and the Wide Receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President, the Professor, and the Wide Receiver<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2009\/11\/17\/the_president_the_professor_and_the_wide_receiver\" target=\"_blank\"><em>When the biracial U.S. President Barack Obama visits South Korea tomorrow, he will be visiting a country grappling with its prejudices about race.<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\" target=\"_blank\">Foreign Policy<\/a><br \/>\n2009-11-17<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Card<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week, U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a>, the son of a black father and white mother, is making his landmark visit to Asia, including a Wednesday stop in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seoul\" target=\"_blank\">Seoul<\/a>, where <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republic_of_Korea\" target=\"_blank\">South Korea<\/a> is in the midst of a racial reckoning. His visit could have positive repercussions for years to come. Race is a thorny issue in the country, and biracial persons especially so. Both North and South Koreans embrace pure bloodlines, untainted by non-Korean <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DNA\" target=\"_blank\">DNA<\/a>. Biracial children are broadly considered unadoptable, and children and adults of mixed race endure ostracism and bullying. But in the past few years, a number of events and people have made South Koreans reconsider racism and persons of mixed race&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2009\/11\/17\/the_president_the_professor_and_the_wide_receiver\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President, the Professor, and the Wide Receiver When the biracial U.S. President Barack Obama visits South Korea tomorrow, he will be visiting a country grappling with its prejudices about race. Foreign Policy 2009-11-17 James Card This week, U.S. President Barack Obama, the son of a black father and white mother, is making his landmark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,63,414,8,394,20],"tags":[2907,2906,2908,229],"class_list":["post-6990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-barack-obama","category-family","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-han-myung-sook","tag-hines-ward","tag-james-card","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990","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=6990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}