{"id":324,"date":"2018-05-01T11:55:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/?p=324"},"modified":"2018-05-01T11:55:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:55:26","slug":"hip-hop-desis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/2018\/05\/01\/hip-hop-desis\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip Hop Desis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found it interesting how <em>Hip Hop Desis<\/em> concluded with the idea of \u201cthe Black experience [being] foundational to race relations in the United States,\u201d and how because of this, \u201cSouth Asians in America must look to and learn from the perspectives of America\u2019s racial other,\u201d (283). In order to better understand how to navigate issues regarding social justice for everyone, it\u2019s encouraged that South Asians should create solidarity, and learn the histories of different groups as a way to understand them. I agree, not only for South Asians, but for other non-black people of color \u2013 both who go through similar oppressive experiences, and just in general \u2013 that they should make an effort to understand the adversity that Black people go through. I think in doing so there would not only be a more well-built foundation for solidarity, but they would also be inspired by some of the movements that speak to justice for everyone, like Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found it interesting how Hip Hop Desis concluded with the idea of \u201cthe Black experience [being] foundational to race relations in the United States,\u201d and how because of this, \u201cSouth Asians in America must look to and learn from the perspectives of America\u2019s racial other,\u201d (283). In order to better understand how to navigate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}