{"id":1331,"date":"2009-10-04T23:31:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T23:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2013-06-18T03:06:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T03:06:57","slug":"performing-bi-and-multi-racial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=1331","title":{"rendered":"Performing Bi- and Multi-Racial Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Performing Bi- and Multi-Racial Identity<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 94th Annual Convention, TBA<br \/>\nSan Diego, California<br \/>\n2008-11-20<\/p>\n<p>13 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Melissa J. Edwards<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Hofstra University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bi or Multi Racial identity is not clearly defined within American racial terms. This performative criticism of Kristen A. Renn&#8217;s study of college age students who identified themselves as biracial explains the historical, governmental, and social reasons for confusion or the lack of clarification of identity among this group. I explore this phenomenon through various theoretical analyses culminating with a written performance expressing the frustration of the students in this racial identity limbo.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/meta\/p260011_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performing Bi- and Multi-Racial Identity Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 94th Annual Convention, TBA San Diego, California 2008-11-20 13 pages Melissa J. Edwards Hofstra University Bi or Multi Racial identity is not clearly defined within American racial terms. This performative criticism of Kristen A. Renn&#8217;s study of college age students who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,8,14,20],"tags":[35,36,137],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-papers","category-usa","tag-kristen-a-renn","tag-kristen-renn","tag-melissa-j-edwards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","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=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}