{"id":10373,"date":"2010-12-01T23:22:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T23:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10373"},"modified":"2010-12-02T00:23:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T00:23:23","slug":"destabilizing-racial-classifications-based-on-insights-gleaned-from-trademark-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10373","title":{"rendered":"Destabilizing Racial Classifications Based on Insights Gleaned from Trademark Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/pss\/3480986\" target=\"_blank\">Destabilizing Racial Classifications Based on Insights Gleaned from Trademark Law<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.californialawreview.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">California Law Review<\/a><br \/>\nVolume 84, Number 4 (July, 1996)<br \/>\npages 887-952<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.virginia.edu\/lawweb\/faculty.nsf\/FHPbI\/1177019\" target=\"_blank\">Alex M. Johnson, Jr.<\/a><\/strong>, Perre Bowen Professor of Law; Thomas F. Bergin Teaching Professor of Law and Director, Center for the Study of Race and Law<br \/>\n<em>University of Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Analogy to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trademark_law\" target=\"_blank\">trademark<\/a> law offers solutions to the problematic binary system of race classification in the US by exposing and deconstructing the notion of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whiteness_studies\" target=\"_blank\">whiteness<\/a> as a property right. Maintaining the racial dichotomy between blacks and whites preserves whiteness as the position of privilege and blackness as the marginalized other. Promotion of multi-racial categories would make racial identification generic and would destroy the value of marking as a way of protecting the property right of being white. Ethnic identities could be retained because of the benefits of voluntary identification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Destabilizing Racial Classifications Based on Insights Gleaned from Trademark Law California Law Review Volume 84, Number 4 (July, 1996) pages 887-952 Alex M. Johnson, Jr., Perre Bowen Professor of Law; Thomas F. Bergin Teaching Professor of Law and Director, Center for the Study of Race and Law University of Virginia Analogy to trademark law offers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,26,20],"tags":[4568,4567,4571],"class_list":["post-10373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-alex-johnson","tag-alex-m-johnson","tag-california-law-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373","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=10373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}