{"id":12644,"date":"2011-03-14T02:01:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T02:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12644"},"modified":"2011-03-14T02:33:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T02:33:12","slug":"mary-beltran-and-camilla-fojas-eds-mixed-race-hollywood-new-york-university-press-2008-325-pp-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12644","title":{"rendered":"Mary Beltr\u00e1n and Camilla Fojas (Eds.), Mixed Race Hollywood, New York University Press, 2008, 325 pp. [Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/ijoc.org\/ojs\/index.php\/ijoc\/article\/viewFile\/724\/391\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Beltr\u00e1n and Camilla Fojas (Eds.), Mixed Race Hollywood, New York University Press, 2008, 325 pp. [Review]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ijoc.org\/ojs\/index.php\/ijoc\" target=\"_blank\">International Journal of Communication<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ijoc.org\/ojs\/index.php\/ijoc\/issue\/view\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Issue 4<\/a> (2010)<br \/>\npages 139-141<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marciadawkins.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marcia Alesan Dawkins<\/a><\/strong>, Visiting Scholar<br \/>\n<em>Brown University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of \u201cObama-mania,\u201d conventional wisdom about racial identity is facing a set of new and unique challenges. It is therefore imperative for scholars and industry professionals to reflect on multiracial identification, representation, history and post-racial politics as they pertain to art and to life. This is exactly what <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=2638\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Race Hollywood<\/a><\/em>, four parts, the book examines representations of multiracial people as integral yet often silenced parts of our real and imagined communities. A truly interdisciplinary study, the essays explore a wide range of topics\u2014from early mixed race film characters to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blaxploitation\" target=\"_blank\">Blaxploitation<\/a> and \u201cmultiracial chic\u201d to children\u2019s television programming, same-sex romance and the \u201couting\u201d of mixed race stars online. Both provocative and timely, the collection helps its readers better understand the evolving conceptions of what race actually is and can be\u2014mixed. The threads running through each essay are these two questions: How are mixed race people deployed as subjects and\/or objects in Hollywood? And, when it comes to issues of mixed race, does art imitate life or does life imitate art?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/ijoc.org\/ojs\/index.php\/ijoc\/article\/viewFile\/724\/391\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Beltr\u00e1n and Camilla Fojas (Eds.), Mixed Race Hollywood, New York University Press, 2008, 325 pp. [Review] International Journal of Communication Issue 4 (2010) pages 139-141 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University In the wake of \u201cObama-mania,\u201d conventional wisdom about racial identity is facing a set of new and unique challenges. It is therefore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,20],"tags":[847,5688,3083,2408,2406,1903],"class_list":["post-12644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-camilla-fojas","tag-international-journal-of-communication","tag-marcia-a-dawkins","tag-marcia-alesan-dawkins","tag-marcia-dawkins","tag-mary-beltran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644","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=12644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}