{"id":104,"date":"2015-11-30T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/?p=104"},"modified":"2015-10-23T05:07:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T05:07:52","slug":"the-social-construction-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/11\/30\/the-social-construction-of-race\/","title":{"rendered":"The Social Construction of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Unemployment, imprisonment, and other life events can change what race those around you perceive you to be.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/a3.files.psmag.com\/image\/upload\/c_fit,cs_srgb,dpr_1.0,q_80,w_620\/MTMzMjg3NzIzNDMwNjE1NTE4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stanford sociologist Aliya Saperstein discusses her research showing that the perception of other peoples\u2019 race is shaped by what we know about them&#8230;Race is a social construction, not just in the sense that we made it up, but in that it\u2019s flexible and dependent on status as well as phenotype.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/books-and-culture\/the-social-construction-of-race\">Click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Unemployment, imprisonment, and other life events can change what race those around you perceive you to be.&#8221; &#8220;Stanford sociologist Aliya Saperstein discusses her research showing that the perception of other peoples\u2019 race is shaped by what we know about them&#8230;Race is a social construction, not just in the sense that we made it up, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/11\/30\/the-social-construction-of-race\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Social Construction of Race<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[34,4,16,65,37,68,13],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-ethnicity","tag-race","tag-race-myth","tag-racial-identity","tag-social-construct","tag-sociology","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}