{"id":4495,"date":"2010-01-11T22:26:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T22:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=4495"},"modified":"2023-01-06T18:45:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:45:40","slug":"about-short-version","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?page_id=4495","title":{"rendered":"About This Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Note: Please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=6548\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read\u00a0the paper<\/a> I delievered about this site at the National Association of Ethnic Studies Conference on April 10, 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mixed Race Studies<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.MixedRaceStudies.org\">MixedRaceStudies.org<\/a>) is\u00a0a non-commercial website created by <a href=\"mailto:steven@stevenriley.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steven F. Riley<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0provides a gateway to interdisciplinary (sociology, psychology, history,\u00a0law,\u00a0anthropology, etc.) English language scholarship about the relevant\u00a0issues surrounding the topic of multiracialism.\u00a0 This site has been\u00a0called by a preeminent scholar, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=9966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the most comprehensive and objective clearinghouse for scholarly publications related to critical mixed-race theory<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The goals of the site are to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide visitors with links to books, articles, dissertations, multimedia and any other resources to enable them to further their (and my) knowledge on the topic.<\/li>\n<li>Remind\u00a0visitors\u00a0that so-called \u201cracial mixing\u201d has been occurring in the Americas for over five centuries and in fact, all of the founding nations of the Americas were mixed-race societies at their inception.<\/li>\n<li>Ultimately support a vision of the irrelevance of race.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is by no means an exhaustive listing of discourses on \u2018mixed race\u2019 scholarship.\u00a0 Some examples of the scholarship that is not available on this site are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Non-English language resources.<\/li>\n<li>Out-of-print resources.\u00a0 (This includes important texts such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Everett_V._Stonequist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everett V.\u00a0Stonequist<\/a>&#8216;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/openlibrary.org\/b\/OL6354028M\/marginal_man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Marginal Man: A Study in Personality and Culture Conflict<\/a><\/em> (1937) and other <a href=\"http:\/\/openlibrary.org\/search?ftokens=anzsfyvmeoib\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">works<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>Non-web-based resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I created the site in April 2009 in recognition of our family members and friends who are &#8216;mixed-race&#8217; and\/or raising &#8216;mixed-race&#8217; children, in response the growing number self-identifying &#8216;mixed-race&#8217; living here in the Washington, DC area, and finally in celebration of my interracial marriage to my loving wife of 28 years.<\/p>\n<p>In supporting the vision of the irrelevance of race, I&#8217;ve been forced to ask myself the following questions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is the ideal of no racial distinction a possibility?<\/li>\n<li>Does mixed race identity continue the racial hierarchy\/paradigm or does it change it?<\/li>\n<li>Will the acknowledgement and study of multiraciality help or hinder a goal of a post-racial future?<\/li>\n<li>Will the sheer volume of mixed race people provoke change?<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;But if everybody has been mixed already and our racial paradigm hasn\u2019t changed in the last 400 years, what do we make of the changes in these last 40 years?<\/li>\n<li>And what changes can we expect in the next 40?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>View my recent activities <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?page_id=6465\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Readers can follow MixedRaceStudies.org on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mixed_race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@mixed_race<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:steven@stevenriley.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steven F. Riley<\/a><br \/>\nMarch, 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: Please read\u00a0the paper I delievered about this site at the National Association of Ethnic Studies Conference on April 10, 2010. Mixed Race Studies (MixedRaceStudies.org) is\u00a0a non-commercial website created by Steven F. 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