{"id":15849,"date":"2011-08-25T00:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15849"},"modified":"2011-08-25T00:14:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T00:14:11","slug":"scales-of-whiteness-and-racial-mixing-challenging-and-confirming-racial-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15849","title":{"rendered":"Scales of Whiteness and Racial Mixing: Challenging and Confirming Racial Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gammathetaupsilon.org\/the-geographical-bulletin\/2000s\/volume50-2\/article3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Scales of Whiteness and Racial Mixing: Challenging and Confirming Racial Categories<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gammathetaupsilon.org\/geographical-bulletin-index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Geographical Bulletin<\/a><br \/>\nGamma Theta Upsilon &#8211; The International Geographic Honor Socieety<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gammathetaupsilon.org\/the-geographical-bulletin\/2000s\/volume50-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 50-2, November 2009<\/a><br \/>\npages 93-110<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxwell.syr.edu\/geo.aspx?id=36507222350\" target=\"_blank\">Serin D. Houston<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nDepartment of Geography<br \/>\n<em>Syracuse University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This paper examines personal and public portrayals of the self and family articulated by heterosexual mixed-race households living in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pacific_Northwest\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Northwest<\/a> of the United States. It argues that an attention to scale sheds light on how mixed-race partnerships and households both reproduce a racial hierarchy and express shifting racial identities. A focus on the work of whiteness\u2014defined here as an evaluative set of practices and processes that implicitly or explicitly legitimate a static racial hierarchy\u2014in the confirmation of and challenges to racial categories further specifies my claims. I explore seemingly contradictory expressions of race in an effort to 1) point to the resilience of racism and to 2) indicate moments and spaces wherein racial identities change. Through qualitative interviews and a scalar lens, I aim to contribute to conversations on where and how stalwart assumptions about race emerge and add to considerations of where and how interpretations of race adopt a more contextual and dynamic form. Recognizing both the instances when different racialized landscapes come to the fore and the times when ardent stereotypes surface can help pave the way for re-imagining racial futures.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gammathetaupsilon.org\/the-geographical-bulletin\/2000s\/volume50-2\/article3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scales of Whiteness and Racial Mixing: Challenging and Confirming Racial Categories The Geographical Bulletin Gamma Theta Upsilon &#8211; The International Geographic Honor Socieety Volume 50-2, November 2009 pages 93-110 Serin D. Houston Department of Geography Syracuse University This paper examines personal and public portrayals of the self and family articulated by heterosexual mixed-race households living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394,20],"tags":[7326,996,7327],"class_list":["post-15849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-serin-d-houston","tag-serin-houston","tag-the-geographical-bulletin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849","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=15849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}