{"id":24731,"date":"2012-08-11T20:34:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T20:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24731"},"modified":"2013-08-22T21:54:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T21:54:29","slug":"rosario-dawson-and-the-ambiguous-blackness-of-latinidad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24731","title":{"rendered":"Rosario Dawson and the Ambiguous Blackness of Latinidad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.commarts.wisc.edu\/2012\/08\/05\/rosario-dawson-and-the-ambiguous-blackness-of-latinidad\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rosario Dawson and the Ambiguous Blackness of Latinidad<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.commarts.wisc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">antenna<\/a><br \/>\n2012-08-05<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.commarts.wisc.edu\/author\/goin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Keara Goin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As has become abundantly clear to me over the course of my research, in the context of contemporary popular U.S. racial discourse, one is either Latina\/o or Black, not both. Moreover, we see this phenomenon replicated in U.S. cinema, where characters played by Afro-Latina\/o actors are racialized as Hispanic or African American and, usually, nothing in between. Actors like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christinamilian.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christina Milian<\/a> (who is of Afro-Cuban descent) and <a href=\"http:\/\/zoesaldana.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zo\u00eb Saldana<\/a> (who is of Dominican heritage) have dark enough skin that casting them as African American seems appropriate, if not the only option. While <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michelle-rodriguez.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Rodriguez<\/a> (who is of mixed Latino and Dominican descent), who can better embody a generic Latina look (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/academics\/programs_at_fordham_\/sociology__anthropol\/faculty\/clara_rodriguez_9333.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Clara Rodriguez<\/a> 1997), can easily play a Chicana from Los Angeles primarily based on her lighter (read: whiter) skin tone. Relying on dominant conceptions of racialization to construct a racial understanding of racially mixed and ambiguous actors, casting agents are often motivated by racialized casting practices (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcf.ua.edu\/faculty\/kristen-warner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kristen Warner<\/a> 2010)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.commarts.wisc.edu\/2012\/08\/05\/rosario-dawson-and-the-ambiguous-blackness-of-latinidad\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosario Dawson and the Ambiguous Blackness of Latinidad antenna 2012-08-05 Keara Goin As has become abundantly clear to me over the course of my research, in the context of contemporary popular U.S. racial discourse, one is either Latina\/o or Black, not both. Moreover, we see this phenomenon replicated in U.S. cinema, where characters played by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,8413,14646,1196,8,20,25],"tags":[11528,11529,11530],"class_list":["post-24731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-communications","category-latino","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-antenna","tag-keara-goin","tag-rosario-dawson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24731","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=24731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}