{"id":12262,"date":"2011-02-23T05:45:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T05:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12262"},"modified":"2017-03-03T17:05:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T17:05:27","slug":"between-black-and-brown-blaxican-black-mexican-multiracial-identity-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12262","title":{"rendered":"Between Black and Brown: Blaxican (Black-Mexican) Multiracial Identity in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0021934710376172\" target=\"_blank\">Between Black and Brown: Blaxican (Black-Mexican) Multiracial Identity in California<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jbs.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Black Studies<\/a><br \/>\nPublished online before print on: 2011-02-22<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0021934710376172\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0021934710376172<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:Rebecca_Romo@umail.ucsb.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Romo<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><em>University of California, Santa Barbara<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article explores the racial\/ethnic identities of multiracial Black-Mexicans or \u201cBlaxicans.\u201d In-depth interviews with 12 Blaxican individuals in California reveal how they negotiate distinct cultural systems to accomplish multiracial identities. <strong>I argue that choosing, accomplishing, and asserting a Blaxican identity challenges the dominant monoracial discourse in the United States,in particular among African American and Chicana\/o communities. That is, Blaxican respondents are held accountable by African Americans and Chicanas\/os\/Mexicans to monoracial notions of \u201cauthenticity.\u201d<\/strong> The process whereby Blaxicans move between these monoracial spaces to create multiracial identities illustrates crucial aspects of the social construction of race\/ethnicity in the United States and the influence of social interactions in shaping how Blaxicans develop their multiracial identities.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/jbs.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2011\/02\/03\/0021934710376172.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article explores the racial\/ethnic identities of multiracial Black-Mexicans or \u201cBlaxicans.\u201d In-depth interviews with 12 Blaxican individuals in California reveal how they negotiate distinct cultural systems to accomplish multiracial identities. I argue that choosing, accomplishing, and asserting a Blaxican identity challenges the dominant monoracial discourse in the United States,in particular among African American and Chicana\/o communities. That is, Blaxican respondents are held accountable by African Americans and Chicanas\/os\/Mexicans to monoracial notions of \u201cauthenticity.\u201d The process whereby Blaxicans move between these monoracial spaces to create multiracial identities illustrates crucial aspects of the social construction of race\/ethnicity in the United States and the influence of social interactions in shaping how Blaxicans develop their multiracial identities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,8,394,20],"tags":[455,102,4000],"class_list":["post-12262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-california","tag-journal-of-black-studies","tag-rebecca-romo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262","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=12262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52027,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262\/revisions\/52027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}