{"id":1660,"date":"2009-10-07T01:57:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T01:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2013-01-15T18:33:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T18:33:15","slug":"multirace-com-the-promise-and-pitfalls-of-multiracial-cyberspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=1660","title":{"rendered":"Multirace.com: The Promise and Pitfalls of Multiracial Cyberspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/meta\/p106660_index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Multirace.com: The Promise and Pitfalls of Multiracial Cyberspace<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association<br \/>\nAtlanta Hilton Hotel<br \/>\nAtlanta, Georgia<br \/>\n2003-08-16<br \/>\n27\u00a0 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu\/socio\/faculty\/childs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Erica Childs<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor<br \/>\nDepartment of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Hunter College at the City University of New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Through the Internet, multiracial individuals and families, even those who have felt isolated in racially segregated communities, can transcend geographically defined communities just by clicking and typing. \u00a0Type \u201cmultiracial\u201d in any search engine and hundreds of results will be given, identifying the varied websites that exist. \u00a0Surfing through these sites from individual webpages of interracial couples to larger sites, it becomes clear that these sites are not detached and separate but rather form an intricate web, connected by links. <strong>These websites are an instrumental part of the multiracial movement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The promise and potential of multiracial cyberspace is that it does provide a multiracial community and network, an \u201cimagined\u201d community among the specific assemblage of linked sites and web browsers not bound by geographical boundaries where most of the members may never meet though \u201cin the minds of each lives the image of their communion.&#8221; Y et the Internet mirrors the larger society in that websites and web publications are often racialized, primarily geared towards one racial group or community thereby reinforcing the color line. Likewise multiracial websites exist on the color line, with a few challenging the racial status quo by bringing together all races, while most simply reproduce the racial hierarchy by further demarcating a separate multiracial community. <strong>This paper explores the significance of these \u201cmultiracial\u201d websites, the ideologies they support, and their role in the multiracial movement. The images and ideas they project about multiracialism and racial politics is addressed. In particular the ways that these websites attempt to construct a multiracial community and promote a particular type of multiracial identity is highlighted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/meta\/p106660_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multirace.com: The Promise and Pitfalls of Multiracial Cyberspace Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Atlanta Hilton Hotel Atlanta, Georgia 2003-08-16 27\u00a0 pages Erica Childs, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Hunter College at the City University of New York Through the Internet, multiracial individuals and families, even those who have felt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14,394],"tags":[178,179],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-archive","category-papers","category-socialscience","tag-erica-childs","tag-erica-chito-childs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","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=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}