{"id":15847,"date":"2011-08-24T23:54:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T23:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15847"},"modified":"2012-03-24T18:49:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T18:49:09","slug":"in-search-of-the-power-of-whiteness-a-genealogical-exploration-of-negotiated-racial-identities-in-americas-ethnic-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15847","title":{"rendered":"In search of the power of whiteness: A genealogical exploration of negotiated racial identities in America’s ethnic past"},"content":{"rendered":"

In search of the power of whiteness: A genealogical exploration of negotiated racial identities in America’s ethnic past<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Communication Quarterly<\/a>
\nVolume 50, Issue 3-4<\/a> (2002)
\npages 391-409
\nDOI: 10.1080\/01463370209385674<\/p>\n

Roberto Avant\u2010Mier<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Communication
\nUniversity of Texas, El Paso<\/em><\/p>\n

Marouf Hasian Jr.<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Communation
\nUniversity of Utah<\/em><\/p>\n

In this essay, the authors explore some of the relational, intersectional, and contextual dimensions of negotiated racial identities. By employing a genealogical method of analysis that looks at three key cases (Anastasie Desarzant, Homer Plessy<\/a>, and Suzie Phipps), they investigate how various historically\u2010situated communities in Louisiana<\/a> have dealt with some of the contradictions, multiplicities and tensions of racial and ethnic identity formation. They then apply these insights in an analysis of issues relating to colorblindness versus color consciousness and commentaries on contemporary examples of how negotiated identities might affect various present\u2010day publics, debates, and politics.<\/p>\n

Americans have always had ambivalent feelings regarding the question of what to do about the nation’s racial identities, and this was especially true when citizens had to deal with the ambiguities of the Enlightenment ideals. During the time of the Founders, civic leaders talked about the importance of the notion that “all men [sic] are created equal,” but when these ideals were put into practice, they had to compete with the economic and social hierarchies that were considered to be mirrors of natural inequalities. Given these normative expectations, it should come as no surprise that in 1790, the first Congress voted that a person must be “white” in order to be a citizen (Nakayama & Krizek, 1995; Omi & Winant, 1994; Roediger, 1994). Since that time, the very notion of what it means to have either a “racial” or an “ethnic” identity has gotten even more complicated, as layers of legal, political, and cultural meanings have pulled us in the competing directions of defending either color con-…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In search of the power of whiteness: A genealogical exploration of negotiated racial identities in America’s ethnic past Communication Quarterly Volume 50, Issue 3-4 (2002) pages 391-409 DOI: 10.1080\/01463370209385674 Roberto Avant\u2010Mier, Associate Professor of Communication University of Texas, El Paso Marouf Hasian Jr., Professor of Communation University of Utah In this essay, the authors explore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,125,369,8,394,20],"tags":[7324,7321,1447,20754,7323,7322,7320,7325],"class_list":["post-15847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-anastasie-desarzant","tag-communication-quarterly","tag-homer-plessy","tag-louisiana","tag-marouf-hasian","tag-marouf-hasian-jr","tag-roberto-avantmier","tag-suzie-phipps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15847","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=15847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}