{"id":1249,"date":"2009-09-30T18:13:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T18:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2013-03-21T14:01:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T14:01:50","slug":"race-mixed-race-and-%e2%80%98race-work%e2%80%99-in-japanese-american-beauty-pageants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=1249","title":{"rendered":"Race, Mixed Race and \u2018Race Work\u2019 in Japanese American Beauty Pageants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/meta\/p101978_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Race, Mixed Race and \u2018Race Work\u2019 in Japanese American Beauty Pageants<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association<br \/>\nMontreal Convention Center<br \/>\nMontreal, Quebec, Canada<br \/>\n2006-08-10<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.nuim.ie\/people\/dr-rebecca-king-oriain\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca King-O&#8217;Riain<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Lecturer<br \/>\nDepartment of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>National University of Ireland<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Long-standing debates within <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Critical_Race_Theory\" target=\"_blank\">critical race theory<\/a> about the efficacy of the concept of \u2018race\u2019 have posited the mixed race experience as an illustration of the flexible and multiple nature of this socially constructed concept (Gans 2005). However, mixed race studies (Root 1996; DuBose and Winter 2002) themselves have shown that mixed race does not mean \u2018no-race\u2019. \u00a0<strong>There persists, even in mixed race research, the notion of race as a concept where racial meaning is congealed and tied through its supposed association with the body to biology. <\/strong>\u00a0Using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethnographic\" target=\"_blank\">ethnographic<\/a> fieldwork in Japanese American beauty pageants, this paper illustrates that the mixed race body invites us to examine more carefully race work \u2013 a concept that I introduce to explain how people exert effort to try to keep their own biological notions of race (typically references to looks or physical appearance) in line with their thinking about culture (i.e. full blooded people of color have culture, whites don\u2019t). I look at multiple levels of social interaction in order to shed light on how race is socially and politically constructed in a world where race has gone underground and is more difficult to detect and trace \u2013 a world where there can be \u201cracial intent without race\u201d (Ignatiev 2004).<\/p>\n<p>To read the entire paper, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/meta\/p101978_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race, Mixed Race and \u2018Race Work\u2019 in Japanese American Beauty Pageants Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Montreal Convention Center Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2006-08-10 Rebecca King-O&#8217;Riain, Senior Lecturer Department of Sociology National University of Ireland Long-standing debates within critical race theory about the efficacy of the concept of \u2018race\u2019 have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8,14,20,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-papers","category-usa","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","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=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}