{"id":176096,"date":"2020-09-06T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/06\/quote-of-the-day-8\/"},"modified":"2020-09-06T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T23:28:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/06\/quote-of-the-day-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Because I\u2019ve lived most of my life either on the near periphery or within academia, I\u2019ve had nearly four decades of experience with the creepy essentialist language of \u201cracial authenticity\u201d that lives and thrives in more than one corner of putatively liberal academia. As a result, I learned a long time ago that some white liberals expect black and brown people to \u201cperform\u201d in ways that comport with their well-meaning, usually underclass-informed, and fundamentally racist expectations of black people. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014Tour\u00e9 F. Reed in <a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2020\/09\/jess-la-bombalera-and-the-pathologies-of-racial-authenticity\/\"><i>Jacobin<\/i><\/a> on the spectacle of Professor Jessica Krug masquerading as a Black Hispanic woman throughout her career<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The entire sordid affair is raises an important question, one which will be studiously ignored in the halls of academe, &#8220;What are the (probably racist) preconceptions that allowed for this fraud to be perpetrated?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I\u2019ve lived most of my life either on the near periphery or within academia, I\u2019ve had nearly four decades of experience with the creepy essentialist language of \u201cracial authenticity\u201d that lives and thrives in more than one corner of putatively liberal academia. As a result, I learned a long time ago that some white &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[544,506,504,398],"class_list":["post-176096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-academe","tag-bigotry","tag-philosophy","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}