{"id":4967,"date":"2004-08-30T18:24:04","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T18:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4967"},"modified":"2017-02-26T08:52:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T08:52:49","slug":"redefining-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/08\/30\/redefining-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Redefining &#8216;black&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joyce King, writing for the Christian Science Monitor on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2004\/0831\/p09s02-coop.html\">Redefining &#8216;black&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From my physical features and peanut-butter color, people are comfortable categorizing me as black. That label does not begin to define what produced me, and so I have decided to redefine what America<br \/>\ncannot.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m black, but I&#8217;m also more than black.<\/p>\n<p>My maternal grandmother was part native American and one of the strongest, most amazing women I ever met. She mothered 13 children, 45 grandchildren, 63 great-grandchildren, and three great-great little ones before her death a few years ago. Her stories pertaining to my &#8220;Indian&#8221; heritage and that side of the family went with her to the grave well before I was interested enough to ask. As for the other side, I am now getting information on a paternal grandfather who was half black, the spitting image of his handsome white daddy.<\/p>\n<p>That would make me an African-native American-European without a descriptive box to check. Colored rules of engagement state that if you look black, you are black. In Louisiana, where I grew up, there is still an ancient law on the books that any citizen, no matter how white he or she appears, with &#8220;a single drop of black blood,&#8221; be classified as black. Were he alive today, W.E.B. DuBois might agree that the &#8220;color line&#8221; in America keeps shifting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2004\/0831\/p09s02-coop.html\">here<\/a>. This entry also posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/onedroprule\">One Drop Rule<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/jameslandrith.com\/\">Taking The Gloves Off<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joyce King, writing for the Christian Science Monitor on Redefining &#8216;black&#8217; From my physical features and peanut-butter color, people are comfortable categorizing me as black. That label does not begin to define what produced&#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-4967","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-1i7","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\/4967","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=4967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6325,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions\/6325"}],"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=4967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}