{"id":16217,"date":"2011-09-11T09:29:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T09:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16217"},"modified":"2013-09-28T04:17:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T04:17:37","slug":"getting-back-to-basics-re-reading-nyt%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9crace-remixed%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16217","title":{"rendered":"Getting Back to Basics: Re-Reading NYT\u2019s \u201cRace Remixed\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Getting Back to Basics: Re-Reading NYT\u2019s \u201cRace Remixed\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nu\u00f1ez Daughter<\/a>
\n2011-02-15<\/p>\n

Kismet Nu\u00f1ez<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, @TrickAmaka sent me a New York Times<\/em> piece by Susan Saulny<\/a> on the high numbers of adults who identify as mixed-race as of the 2010 census.\u00a0 In what was apparently the first in a series titled \u201cRace Remixed<\/a>,\u201d the article focuses on a group of students at the University of Maryland as part of \u201cthe crop of students moving through college right now\u201d who make up \u201cthe largest group of mixed-race people ever to come of age in the United States.\u201d\u00a0 Apparently, inquiring minds expect to latest census to reflect the changing dynamics of race in America:<\/p>\n

One in seven new marriages is between spouses of different races or ethnicities, according to data from 2008 and 2009 that was analyzed by the Pew Research Center. Multiracial and multiethnic Americans (usually grouped together as \u201cmixed race\u201d) are one of the country\u2019s fastest-growing demographic groups. And experts expect the racial results of the 2010 census, which will start to be released next month, to show the trend continuing or accelerating.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m glad I waited until after V-Day<\/a> to even click the link.\u00a0 Turns out the second article<\/a> basically redacted the first (it is, *gasp* a \u201ccomplex\u201d matter, quantifying and analyzing the mixed-race population), and the third (well, what do you, our ever so intelligent and enraged readers, think?) threw the topic to the wolves of the blogosphere for further discussion…<\/p>\n

The piece is mostly NYT playing Columbus<\/a> and re-discovering race (mixture) in this country.\u00a0 Again.\u00a0 After all, what do you with bleached out phrases like these:<\/p>\n

\u201cSome proportion of the country\u2019s population has been mixed-race since the first white settlers had children with Native Americans.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0A bit of rape with your legacy of colonialism?\u00a0 A dollop of indentured servitude and forced labor on the side?\u00a0 How Disney of you…<\/p>\n

…And I affirm Ms. Wood, Ms. L\u00f3pez-Mullins, and all of the other students who were brave enough to talk to a reporter about what is going on in their hearts and in their heads.\u00a0 Figuring out who you are is no easy feat, regardless of your race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, political affiliation, etc., etc., etc.
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\nBut there is a legacy of violence that underlies all of these identity claims and we need to make that central to the discussion.\u00a0\u00a0 Once upon a time a black man boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman.\u00a0 Once upon a time a black woman was raped for walking down the wrong road.\u00a0 Once upon a time a white woman was enslaved for not being white enough (or was she?).
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\nAnd because we should never speak of these relations as though they were simply a matter of romance, a rainbow conflagration of resistance that just happened to occur between the legs of women of color, I will also never advocate for \u201cmixed-race\u201d as a corporate identity…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Getting Back to Basics: Re-Reading NYT\u2019s \u201cRace Remixed\u201d Nu\u00f1ez Daughter 2011-02-15 Kismet Nu\u00f1ez A few weeks ago, @TrickAmaka sent me a New York Times piece by Susan Saulny on the high numbers of adults who identify as mixed-race as of the 2010 census.\u00a0 In what was apparently the first in a series titled \u201cRace Remixed,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,125,8,394,20],"tags":[7511,7512,6532,4216,2327],"class_list":["post-16217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-kismet-nunez","tag-nunez-daughter","tag-race-remixed","tag-susan-saulny","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217","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=16217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}