{"id":10340,"date":"2010-11-30T18:30:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T18:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10340"},"modified":"2017-03-06T20:02:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T20:02:08","slug":"miscentrism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10340","title":{"rendered":"miscentrism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There is a smugness associated with this valorization of contemporary racial mixture that is palpable if one is not party to the celebration, a smugness that is a complement to the rejection of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a>\u00a0of history that I considered toward the end of Chapter 6.\u00a0 It is in that regard a double insult to American mulattoes today and to their voiceless precursors of past decades and centuries.\u00a0 I am therefore moved to provide a name for what has thus far been only a feeling, something I have responded to and reacted against, but until now has remained nameless.\u00a0 <strong>I therefore introduce the concept of <em>miscentrism<\/em>, by which I mean an ideology that holds multiraciality to be superior to all monoraces with the exception, naturally, of whites.<\/strong>\u00a0 This exception is necessary to note, for the American Multiracial Identity Movement is invested at a deep philosophical level in the perpetuation and the veneration of whiteness as purity and superiority.\u00a0 In a perverse way, the American Multiracial Identity Movement\u2019s clear stances of mulattophobia and Negrophobia are counterpoised against its own miscentrism in a kind of isometric logical fallacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rainier Spencer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7110\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Reproducing<\/em><em> Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix<\/em><\/a>, (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Reinner, 2011), 167.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a smugness associated with this valorization of contemporary racial mixture that is palpable if one is not party to the celebration, a smugness that is a complement to the rejection of the mulatto\u00a0of history that I considered toward the end of Chapter 6.\u00a0 It is in that regard a double insult to American mulattoes today and to their voiceless precursors of past decades and centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-10340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-rainier-spencer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52121,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340\/revisions\/52121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}