{"id":9360,"date":"2010-10-05T21:48:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T21:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9360"},"modified":"2021-11-06T14:36:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T14:36:52","slug":"change-of-venue-change-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9360","title":{"rendered":"Change of Venue.  Change of Race."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI am an African American,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.harvard.edu\/~aaas\/faculty\/duana_fullwiley\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duana Fullwiley<\/a>, \u201cbut in parts of Africa, I am white.\u201d To do fieldwork as a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medical_anthropology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medical anthropologist<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Senegal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senegal<\/a>, she says, \u201cI take a plane to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/France\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a>, a seven- to eight-hour ride. My race changes as I cross the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_Ocean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlantic<\/a>. There, I say, \u2018<em>Je suis noire<\/em>,\u2019 and they say, \u2018Oh, okay\u2014<em>m\u00e9tisse<\/em>\u2014you are mixed.\u2019 Then I fly another six to seven hours to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Senegal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senegal<\/a>, and I am white.<strong> In the space of a day, I can change from African American, to <em>m\u00e9tisse<\/em>, to <em>tubaab<\/em> [<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wolof_language\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wolof<\/strong><\/a><strong> for \u201cwhite\/European\u201d].<\/strong> This is not a joke, or something to laugh at, or to take lightly. It is the kind of social recognition that even two-year-olds who can barely speak understand. <strong>\u2018<em>Tubaab<\/em>,\u2019 they say when they greet me.\u201d \u2014<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.harvard.edu\/~aaas\/faculty\/duana_fullwiley\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duana Fullwiley<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Race in a Genetic World<\/a>,\u201d <em>Harvard Magazine<\/em>, Volume 110, Number\u00a05 (May-June, 2008): <a href=\"http:\/\/harvardmagazine.com\/2008\/05\/race-in-a-genetic-world.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/harvardmagazine.com\/2008\/05\/race-in-a-genetic-world.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am an African American,\u201d says Duana Fullwiley, \u201cbut in parts of Africa, I am white.\u201d To do fieldwork as a medical anthropologist in Senegal, she says, \u201cI take a plane to France, a seven- to eight-hour ride. My race changes as I cross the Atlantic. There, I say, \u2018Je suis noire,\u2019 and they say, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2084],"class_list":["post-9360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-duana-fullwiley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360","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=9360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62122,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360\/revisions\/62122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}