{"id":10755,"date":"2010-12-13T01:31:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T01:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10755"},"modified":"2013-07-01T01:41:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T01:41:32","slug":"the-browning-and-yellowing-of-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10755","title":{"rendered":"The Browning and Yellowing of Whiteness"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Browning and Yellowing of Whiteness<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Black Commentator<\/a>
\n2005<\/p>\n

Tamara K. Nopper<\/a><\/strong>, Adjunct Professor of Asian American Studies
\nUniversity of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n

Latino\/as and Asians Americans do not necessarily reject dominant culture and ideology when it comes to racial politics.<\/em><\/p>\n

A Review of Who is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black\/Nonblack Divide<\/a><\/em> by George Yancey (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003).<\/p>\n

In 1903 the ever-forward looking W. E. B. DuBois<\/a> declared, \u201cThe problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.\u201d\u00a0 A century later, the relevance of DuBois\u2019 observation is being contested by those preoccupied with the increasing ethnic and cultural diversification of the US.\u00a0 Many argue that DuBois\u2019 centralization of the boundary between the entangled black and white worlds is outdated, going so far as to propose that we now have \u201ccolorlines.\u201d\u00a0 Such gestures are more than semantic and instead imply that blackness as the definitive social boundary for US race relations is either less pronounced or completely erased by the significant presence of nonblack racial minorities such as Latino\/as and Asian Americans.<\/p>\n

This is precisely why George Yancey\u2019s<\/a> book Who is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black\/Nonblack Divide<\/em> is such a necessary read.\u00a0 Yancey, a sociologist at the University of North Texas, provides compelling evidence that supports the (unstated) hypothesis that the color line of the twentieth century will remain firmly entrenched in the twenty-first. Using as his point of departure the popular projection that whites will soon be a minority group, Yancey opens his book by arguing that whites will remain the majority despite the growing populations of Latino\/as and Asian Americans.\u00a0 How can the increase of Latino\/as and Asian Americans enforce, rather than disrupt, the color line?\u00a0 Simple.\u00a0 By 2050, according to Yancey, most Latino\/as and Asian Americans will be white…<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Overall, while some will surely dismiss Who is White?<\/em> as \u201cacademic\u201d\u2014a practice many activists and even academics engage in when confronted with political conclusions that make them uncomfortable\u2014Yancey\u2019s research is extremely relevant for contemporary racial politics.\u00a0 Most importantly, Yancey\u2019s findings hint at possible inadequacies of current approaches to \u201cmultiracial\u201d America, most of which emphasize a white\/non-white paradigm that minimizes or outright dismisses the reality of antiblack racism as the structuring and generative ideology of US race relations and social inequality…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Browning and Yellowing of Whiteness The Black Commentator 2005 Tamara K. Nopper, Adjunct Professor of Asian American Studies University of Pennsylvania Latino\/as and Asians Americans do not necessarily reject dominant culture and ideology when it comes to racial politics. A Review of Who is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black\/Nonblack Divide by George […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,394,20],"tags":[355,4707,322,2922,2921,4706],"class_list":["post-10755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-george-a-yancey","tag-george-allen-yancey","tag-george-yancey","tag-tamara-k-nopper","tag-tamara-nopper","tag-the-black-commentator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755","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=10755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}