{"id":20845,"date":"2012-03-25T06:16:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T06:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20845"},"modified":"2013-03-02T03:44:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T03:44:48","slug":"postracial-possibilities-deconstructing-contemporary-discourse-on-multiraciality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20845","title":{"rendered":"Postracial Possibilities? Deconstructing Contemporary Discourse on Multiraciality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdms.myacpa.org\/programs\/book\/program_info.cfm?program=2075&amp;form=GCFDS7TIQ1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Postracial Possibilities? Deconstructing Contemporary Discourse on Multiraciality<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.myacpa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American College Personnel Association<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/convention.myacpa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ACPA 2012 Annual Convention<\/a><br \/>\nLouisville, Kentucky<br \/>\n2012-03-24 through 2012-03-28<\/p>\n<p>Session Information:<br \/>\nMonday, 2012-03-26<br \/>\n16:15-17:15 EDT (Local Time)<br \/>\nKentucky International Convention Center, 107<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gseis.ucla.edu\/news-events\/student-profiles\/marc-johnston\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Johnston<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>University of California, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:pchaudhari@apiasf.org\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Prema Chaudhari<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Asian &amp; Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although multiracial individuals have been positioned as harbingers of a postracial era (especially after <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama&#8217;s<\/a> election) others critique the multiracial movement, with its large college student base, for reinforcing racial hierarchies (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7110\" target=\"_blank\">Spencer, 2011<\/a>). This contradictory discourse, coupled with increasing suspicion of mixed heritage students doing &#8220;the race hustle&#8221; when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=18773\" target=\"_blank\">seeking college admission\/scholarships<\/a>, presents challenges for addressing the needs of an increasingly diverse multiracial student population. By deconstructing this discourse we offer clarity and recommendations for future practice.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/cdms.myacpa.org\/programs\/book\/program_info.cfm?program=2075&amp;form=GCFDS7TIQ1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postracial Possibilities? Deconstructing Contemporary Discourse on Multiraciality American College Personnel Association ACPA 2012 Annual Convention Louisville, Kentucky 2012-03-24 through 2012-03-28 Session Information: Monday, 2012-03-26 16:15-17:15 EDT (Local Time) Kentucky International Convention Center, 107 Marc Johnston University of California, Los Angeles Prema Chaudhari Asian &amp; Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF) Although multiracial individuals have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2895,1196,13,8,20],"tags":[9759,2823,1321,9794,45],"class_list":["post-20845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-life","category-literary-criticism","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-american-college-personnel-association","tag-jesse-washington","tag-marc-johnston","tag-prema-chaudhari","tag-rainier-spencer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20845","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=20845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}