{"id":1270,"date":"2009-10-01T00:59:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T00:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2013-04-24T14:38:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T14:38:44","slug":"political-discourse-on-racial-mixture-american-newspapers-1865-to-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=1270","title":{"rendered":"Political Discourse on Racial Mixture: American Newspapers, 1865 to 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/meta\/p266991_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Political Discourse on Racial Mixture: American Newspapers, 1865 to 1970<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference<br \/>\nPalmer House Hotel<br \/>\nHilton, Chicago, IL<br \/>\n2008-04-03<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.harvard.edu\/~aaas\/faculty\/jennifer_l_hochschild\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jennifer L. Hochschild<\/strong><\/a>, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government &amp; Professor of African and African American Studies<br \/>\n<em>Harvard University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\/socialpol\/students\/students.htm#powell\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Brenna Marea Powell<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Harvard University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginia.edu\/politics\/staff\/scholars\/weaver.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vesla Weaver<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor<br \/>\nThe Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics<br \/>\n<em>University of Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>We trace American political discourse around multiracialism, race-mixing, and mixed-race people from the end of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_civil_war\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War<\/a> through the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955%E2%80%931968)\" target=\"_blank\">civil rights era<\/a>. We use two new sources of data: counts of keywords such as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a>\u201d and \u201cmultiracial\u201d in two black and four white newspapers over 150 years, and a content analysis of themes and assumptions in almost 2,100 articles from the same newspapers, also using keywords that indicate racial mixture.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These datasets provide evidence on two analytic and two substantive points: First, the press\u2019s treatment of mixture permits us to analyze \u201cracial meaning,\u201d defined as the varied ways in which Americans construe, practice, and judge group-based identities and identifications. Second, the datasets enable us to trace the timing of changes in ideas about racial meaning, and to map these changes onto a new periodization of distinct institutional treatments of racial mixture. Substantively, the dataset show vividly how much Americans argued over what counted as a race, how people were to be allocated to and across races, and what implications racial groupings should have. The contemporary racial order, which looks inevitable and orderly in hindsight, was not at all clear while it was being created. <strong>Most importantly, the language of the newspaper articles shows vividly that Americans\u2019 debates over racial mixture and racially mixed people were (and continue to be) a critical site for contestation over racial hierarchy, advance, and equality.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/meta\/p266991_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Discourse on Racial Mixture: American Newspapers, 1865 to 1970 Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference Palmer House Hotel Hilton, Chicago, IL 2008-04-03 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government &amp; Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University Brenna Marea Powell Harvard University Vesla Weaver, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8413,459,1196,8,14,26,20],"tags":[131,98,97,2351,2677,99],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-papers","category-politics","category-usa","tag-brenna-marea-powell","tag-jennifer-hochschild","tag-jennifer-l-hochschild","tag-vesla-m-weaver","tag-vesla-mae-weaver","tag-vesla-weaver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","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=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}