{"id":13261,"date":"2011-04-15T03:56:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T03:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13261"},"modified":"2013-04-03T19:00:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T19:00:03","slug":"transcending-blackness-in-the-21st-century-or-how-can-i-be-like-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13261","title":{"rendered":"Transcending Blackness in the 21st Century, or How Can I Be Like Barack Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/global.wisc.edu\/multiracial\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transcending Blackness in the 21st Century, or How Can I Be Like Barack Obama?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/global.wisc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Global Studies: A Member of the International Instutute<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/global.wisc.edu\/multiracial\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\">Multiracial Tales and Multicultural Discourses<\/a><br \/>\n494 Van Hise Hall<br \/>\n2011-04-18, 17:30 CDT (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=15470 \" target=\"_blank\">Ralina L. Joseph<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Communications<br \/>\n<em>University of Washington<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/global.wisc.edu\/multiracial\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Joseph-Poster-COLOR.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As &#8220;postrace&#8221; is the buzzword of the new century, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> has quickly become a poster child of the postrace, the question arises: <strong>must multiracial African Americans metaphorically transcend blackness in order to achieve success?<\/strong> This talk will critique the notion that mixed-race black subjects function as bridges offering safe passage to a third, interstitial, or hybridized space. I argue that a two-sided stereotype, comprised in the &#8220;new millennium <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatta<\/a>&#8221; and the &#8220;exceptional multiracial,&#8221; has arisen instead through a variety of mediated discourses.<\/p>\n<p>Ralina Joseph is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Washington. Her forthcoming book from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Duke University Press<\/a> entitled <em>Transcending Blackness: Anti-Black Racism and African American Multiraciality from the New Milennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial<\/em> investigates 1998-2008 era pop culture representations of multiracial African Americans.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/global.wisc.edu\/multiracial\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nView the poster in <a href=\"http:\/\/global.wisc.edu\/multiracial\/docs\/Joseph%20Poster%20COLOR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">color<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/global.wisc.edu\/multiracial\/docs\/Joseph%20Poster%20BW.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">black-and-white<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcending Blackness in the 21st Century, or How Can I Be Like Barack Obama? Global Studies: A Member of the International Instutute University of Wisconsin, Madison Multiracial Tales and Multicultural Discourses 494 Van Hise Hall 2011-04-18, 17:30 CDT (Local Time) Ralina L. 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