{"id":17637,"date":"2011-11-01T04:15:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T04:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=17637"},"modified":"2011-11-01T04:15:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T04:15:46","slug":"17637","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=17637","title":{"rendered":"Guess who\u2019s coming to brunch? Dating and the hybrid subject"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guess who\u2019s coming to brunch? Dating and the hybrid subject<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Race-Talk<\/a>
\n2011-10-26<\/p>\n

Adebe D. A.<\/strong><\/a>, Race-Talk Cultural Editor<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have enough hands to count how many times people have asked me if my parents are \u201cstill together\u201d and upon hearing that yes, they have been together for over 25 years, expressed sincere surprise at this fact. Interracial marriages are apparently not supposed to work; the miscegenation taboo prevails. I guess whoever says race doesn\u2019t exist is not only color-blind but sleep-walking.
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\nI remember reading an article a while ago on how, according to higher education research, mixed-race people are perceived as \u201cmore attractive.\u201d<\/a> Conducted by Dr. Michael Lewis<\/a> of Cardiff University\u2019s School of Psychology, the research involved a collection of 1205 randomly-chosen black, white, and mixed-race faces (a limited choice of representative faces altogether). Each face was then rated for its perceived attractiveness, and it was found that mixed-race faces took the cake. The findings were then presented to the British Psychological Society…<\/p>\n

…Contrary to popular opinion, I am not flattered by the fact that studies are interested in my face, because frankly, they don\u2019t really see me at all. When mixed-race gets talked about in the media, it\u2019s often automatically celebrated as a marker of socio-political progress, completely disconnected from the racial trauma of being deemed inauthentic by others, the wounds of self-questioning, and the reality of racialized violence and fetishization.<\/strong> I have been asked by previous partners if my hair, eyes, and even skin color were \u201creal\u201d as if I were a specimen to be poked and prodded at; as if my personhood were dependent upon the undressing of some enigma. The point was not if I colored my hair or if it were naturally this or that hue; the point lied in the question, the strange liberty people have found in dissecting what I am…<\/p>\n

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

Guess who\u2019s coming to brunch? Dating and the hybrid subject Race-Talk 2011-10-26 Adebe D. A., Race-Talk Cultural Editor I don\u2019t have enough hands to count how many times people have asked me if my parents are \u201cstill together\u201d and upon hearing that yes, they have been together for over 25 years, expressed sincere surprise at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,394],"tags":[2423,2424,2817,2816,6963],"class_list":["post-17637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-adebe-d-a","tag-adebe-derango-adem","tag-michael-b-lewis","tag-michael-lewis","tag-race-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17637","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=17637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}