{"id":15049,"date":"2011-11-14T04:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15049"},"modified":"2013-06-29T18:44:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T18:44:35","slug":"the-historic-dimensions-of-american-multiraciality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15049","title":{"rendered":"The Historic Dimensions of American Multiraciality"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>By obscuring the historic dimensions of American multiraciality\u2014emphasizing its newness but not its oldness\u2014we may run the risk of ignoring lessons that past racial stratification offers for understanding today\u2019s outcomes.<\/strong> For one thing, older social norms still make themselves felt in contemporary discussion of mixed-race identity (Davis, 1991; Waters, 1991; Wilson, 1992). <strong>In addition, history reminds us that these attitudes toward multiraciality were embedded in complex webs of social, political, economic, and cultural premises and objectives, thereby suggesting that the same holds true today.<\/strong> Finally, turning to the past highlights how malleable racial concepts have proved to be over time despite the permanence and universality we often ascribe to them. Given the United States\u2019 history, the extent to which public attitudes toward mixed-race unions and ancestry have changed is remarkable. Perhaps the real new people today are not just those of multiracial heritage but also Americans in general who now conceptualize, tolerate, or embrace multiple-race identities in ways that were unacceptable in the past.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ann Morning, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=12614\" target=\"_blank\">New Faces, Old Faces: Counting the Multiracial Population Past and Present<\/a>,\u201d in <em>New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century<\/em>, edited by Loretta I. Winters, Herman L. DeBose, Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications USA, 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By obscuring the historic dimensions of American multiraciality\u2014emphasizing its newness but not its oldness\u2014we may run the risk of ignoring lessons that past racial stratification offers for understanding today\u2019s outcomes. For one thing, older social norms still make themselves felt in contemporary discussion of mixed-race identity (Davis, 1991; Waters, 1991; Wilson, 1992). In addition, history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,459],"tags":[562],"class_list":["post-15049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","category-history","tag-ann-morning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049","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=15049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}