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  • While advocates in the multiracial movement never explicitly indicate distaste for the minority that constitutes part of a mixed race individual, the insistence on the development of a new racial designation inadvertently associates this minority with inferiority.

    While advocates in the multiracial movement never explicitly indicate distaste for the minority that constitutes part of a mixed race individual, the insistence on the development of a new racial designation inadvertently associates this minority with inferiority. African-American studies professor Jared Sexton argues that the implicit rejection of the black race in multiracial discourse is…

  • Racism and multiracialism can be allies.

    Last year, I predicted 2017 (and the era of Trump more generally) would be a time of renewed faith in the political efficacy of interracial romance and procreation. This prediction was informed by two recent books — one by UC Irvine professor Jared Sexton, the other by NYU professor Tavia Nyong’o — which probe the…

  • National Geographic Replaces Racist Fictions With Post-racial Fantasies

    The magazine’s April issue, “The Race Issue,” promises to reckon with an editorial history it describes precisely as “racist.”

  • On Black Negativity, Or the Affirmation of Nothing

    This interview attends to and foregrounds Sexton’s theorization of the meaning, stakes, and implications of the unlimited field of black studies. While such theorization is bound to matters that entail a sociological specificity, the questions that thereby emerge likewise entail the opening up of “a whole series of ontological matters.”

  • 128 RACE MIXTURE POLTCS

    128 RACE MIXTURE POLTCS University of California, Irvine School of Humanities Winter Quarter 2016 Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies This course explores the politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the United States from the antebellum period to the post-civil rights era, paying specific attention to…

  • What’s Radical About “Mixed Race”?

    On April 20, 2015, the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU hosted “What’s Radical About ‘Mixed Race’?”. Eschewing an apolitical “celebration” of mixed race, this panel examined the movement’s implications for multiracial coalition and the future of race in the US and Canada, asking: does the multiracial movement challenge—or actually reinforce—the logics of structural racism?

  • What’s Radical About “Mixed Race?”

    What’s Radical About “Mixed Race?” Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU 8 Washington Mews New York, New York 10003 Phone: (212) 998-3700 Monday, 2015-04-20, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) | Free Since the 1990s, mainstream media has heralded the growing population of self-identified “mixed race” people in the US and Canada as material proof of a post-racial era…

  • Panel discusses mixed race scholarship

    Panel discusses mixed race scholarship Washington Square News: NYU’s Independent Student Newspaper 2015-04-21 Amanda Morris, Contributing Writer Jared Sexton speaks on the topic of mixed race individuals. Sexton is the director of the African American Studies program in UC Irvine. (Shawn Paik) In studying mixed race identities, the historical focus has been on the individual,…

  • Complicating Race or Reproducing Whiteness? Heidi Durrow and The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

    Complicating Race or Reproducing Whiteness? Heidi Durrow and The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Gino Michael Pellegrini: Education, Race, Multiraciality, Class & Solidarity 2014-04-13 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California [This is an excerpt from a paper (currently being revised) that I presented last month at the…

  • The Politics of Multiracialism in an Anti-Black World

    The Politics of Multiracialism in an Anti-Black World I MiX What I Like! WPFW 89.3 FM, Washington, D.C. 2011-10-07 Jared A. Ball, Host and Associate Professor of Communication Studies Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine Dr. Jared Sexton joined…