{"id":108,"date":"2015-10-31T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/?p=108"},"modified":"2015-10-08T05:09:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T05:09:02","slug":"what-we-mean-when-we-say-race-is-a-social-construct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/10\/31\/what-we-mean-when-we-say-race-is-a-social-construct\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Mean When We Say &#8216;Race Is a Social Construct&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-cover\">\n<div class=\"article-cover-content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"article-cover-content\">\n<p class=\"dek\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/public.media.smithsonianmag.com\/legacy_blog\/what-about-race-nmnh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dek\">&#8220;In a world where Kevin Garnett, Harold Ford, and Halle Berry all check &#8220;black&#8221; on the census, even the argument that racial labels refer to natural differences in physical traits doesn&#8217;t hold up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-article-wrapper\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2013\/05\/what-we-mean-when-we-say-race-is-a-social-construct\/275872\/\">Click here.<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a world where Kevin Garnett, Harold Ford, and Halle Berry all check &#8220;black&#8221; on the census, even the argument that racial labels refer to natural differences in physical traits doesn&#8217;t hold up.&#8221; Click here. &nbsp;<\/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":[19,7,61,28,48,4,65,37],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-african-americans","tag-biology","tag-blackness","tag-census","tag-genetics","tag-race","tag-racial-identity","tag-social-construct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","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=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}