Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Tag: Ralina Landwehr Joseph
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Steve Scher: “What is President Obama?” Ralina Joseph: “Well, if you were to ask him. President Obama is black. He is African-American.” Steve Scher: “Yeah. When President Obama came out after the Trayvon Martin killing and he said, ‘My kids would have looked like Trayvon Martin if they had been boys.’… Let’s unpack all of…
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UW communication professor unveils new book about race The Daily of the University of Washington 2013-02-07 LaVendrick Smith Ralina Joseph discusses her book cover art at “Troubling the Family and Transcending Blackness” held at the UW bookstore. Photo by Dario Nanbu Race, reality, and pop culture collide in a new book written by one UW…
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Guest: The fury over a Cheerios ad and an interracial family The Seattle Times 2013-06-24 Ralina Joseph, Associate Professor of Communication University of Washington The response to a Cheerios TV ad exposes American discomfort with interracial families, writes guest columnist Ralina Joseph A RECENT Cheerios television ad has all of the elements that viewers usually…
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Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial [Gaither Review] MXDWELL 2013-02-17 Renoir Gaither MXDWELL is a versatile online news source that celebrates and redefines the mixed experience by presenting a variety of cultural and artistic news, while promoting diversity as a vital aspect of our community. Behind her behemoth title, “Transcending…
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Populations of humans have always been mixing genes, but we still have trouble with the concept.
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Representations of multiracial Americans, especially those with one black and one white parent, appear everywhere in contemporary culture, from reality shows to presidential politics. Some depict multiracial individuals as being mired in painful confusion; others equate them with progress, as the embodiment of a postracial utopia. In “Transcending Blackness,” Ralina L. Joseph critiques both depictions…
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The antiblack racism in the multiracial movement from the 1990s did not fit with my multiracial college activism, and yet it stuck with me. It unsettled me to understand how politicians and the media manipulated multiracialism into an alignment of “my people” with the politics of the Far Right.