{"id":11863,"date":"2011-02-02T12:59:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T12:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11863"},"modified":"2013-08-29T21:17:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T21:17:50","slug":"dr-rainier-spencer-to-be-guest-on-newsnation-with-tamron-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11863","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Rainier Spencer to be Guest on MSNBC NewsNation with Tamron Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/38243831\/ns\/msnbc_tv-newsnation_with_tamron_hall\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Rainier Spencer to be Guest on MSNBC NewsNation with Tamron Hall<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/38243831\/ns\/msnbc_tv-newsnation_with_tamron_hall\" target=\"_blank\">NewsNation<\/a><br \/>\n<em>MSNBC\u00a0TV<br \/>\n<\/em>Wednesday, 2011-02-02, 19:00-20:00Z (14:00-15:00 EST, 11:00-12:00 PST) (<strong>Recheduled due to a White House news conference on the situation in Egypt\u00a0from 2011-01-31.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/20074213\/ns\/msnbc_tv-meet_the_faces_of_msnbc\/?ns=msnbc_tv-meet_the_faces_of_msnbc\" target=\"_blank\">Tamron Hall<\/a><\/strong>, Host<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.unlv.edu\/spencer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rainier Spencer<\/a><\/strong>, Director and Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Nevada, Las Vegas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Spencer is the author of the new book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7110\" target=\"_blank\">Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix<\/a><\/em> (2011) in where he argues cogently, and forcefully, that the deconstruction of race promised by the American Multiracial Identity Movement will remain an illusion of wishful thinking unless we truly address the racist baggage that serves tenaciously to conserve the present racial order.<\/p>\n<p>View the video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/watch\/video\/melting-pot-vs-mixing-pot\/6enyql9\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Selected bibliography:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3872\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed-Race Chic<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Chronicle Review<\/em>, May 19, 2009.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1040\" target=\"_blank\">Challenging Multiracial ldentity<\/a><\/em>. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2006.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1039\" target=\"_blank\">Spurious Issues: Race and Multiracial Identity Politics in the United States<\/a><\/em>, Boulder, CO: Westview Press,\u00a01999.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Rainier Spencer to be Guest on MSNBC NewsNation with Tamron Hall NewsNation MSNBC\u00a0TV Wednesday, 2011-02-02, 19:00-20:00Z (14:00-15:00 EST, 11:00-12:00 PST) (Recheduled due to a White House news conference on the situation in Egypt\u00a0from 2011-01-31.) Tamron Hall, Host Rainier Spencer, Director and Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies University of Nevada, Las Vegas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,13,8,26,394,20,842],"tags":[5359,5361,45,5360],"class_list":["post-11863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-census","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-videos","tag-msnbc-tv","tag-newsnation","tag-rainier-spencer","tag-tamron-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11863","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=11863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}