{"id":9675,"date":"2010-10-20T21:04:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T21:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9675"},"modified":"2015-10-29T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T17:57:57","slug":"the-social-ambiguity-of-race-and-ethnicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9675","title":{"rendered":"The social ambiguity of race and ethnicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.campustimes.org\/2010\/09\/30\/the-social-ambiguity-of-race-and-ethnicity\/\" target=\"_blank\">The social ambiguity of race and ethnicity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.campustimes.org\" target=\"_blank\">Campus Times<\/a><br \/>\nServing the University of Rochester since 1873<br \/>\n2010-09-30<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:victoria.massie@rochester.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Massie<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons why I fell in love with anthropology is because I realized that race isn\u2019t an inherent part of who we are. Through careful socialization, via standardized tests and my parents, I had always known that when asked my race, the appropriate answer was Black\/African-American\/Non-Hispanic.<\/p>\n<p>But lo and behold, this year as I attempt to \u201cnaturalize\u201d myself \u2014\u00a0 either by attempting to lose the weight that I have been hiding behind for so many years or cutting my hair to respect and appreciate the natural curls bestowed to me (in spite of mainstream society\u2019s warped ideas about beauty, particularly Black beauty) \u2014 my physical transformation, seems to constantly dismantle my assigned racial category&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campustimes.org\/2010\/09\/30\/the-social-ambiguity-of-race-and-ethnicity\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The social ambiguity of race and ethnicity Campus Times Serving the University of Rochester since 1873 2010-09-30 Victoria Massie One of the reasons why I fell in love with anthropology is because I realized that race isn\u2019t an inherent part of who we are. Through careful socialization, via standardized tests and my parents, I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,8,394],"tags":[4199,4198],"class_list":["post-9675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-campus-times","tag-victoria-massie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9675","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=9675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43579,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9675\/revisions\/43579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}