{"id":4943,"date":"2004-07-07T10:23:04","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T10:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2017-02-26T09:01:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T09:01:02","slug":"senna-on-the-multiracial-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/07\/07\/senna-on-the-multiracial-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Senna on the &#8220;Multiracial&#8221; Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks over at Mixed Media Watch have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/item.aspx?user=mixedmediawatch&amp;tab=weblogs&amp;uid=106443842&amp;nextdate=last\">link to an interview with &#8220;biracial&#8221; author Danzy Senna<\/a>. An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the things I\u2019m sort of wary of in the multiracial movement is a denial of the persistence of racism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No one I&#8217;ve ever encountered in my many years in the leadership of the &#8220;multiracial&#8221; movement has denied the &#8220;the persistence of racism&#8221;. Those opposed to self-identification have, however, falsely attributed such sentiments to the &#8220;multiracial&#8221; movement. Ms. Senna would be wise to not fall prey to the propaganda of those opposed to self-identification. The &#8220;multiracial&#8221; movement persists despite &#8220;racism,&#8221; not in its absence.<\/p>\n<p>This entry also posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameslandrith.com\/\">Taking The Gloves Off<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks over at Mixed Media Watch have a link to an interview with &#8220;biracial&#8221; author Danzy Senna. An excerpt: One of the things I\u2019m sort of wary of in the multiracial movement is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1hJ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Editors-Corner.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6332,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/6332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}