{"id":24904,"date":"2012-10-30T21:30:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T21:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24904"},"modified":"2012-10-30T21:52:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T21:52:08","slug":"2012-critical-mixed-race-studies-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24904","title":{"rendered":"2012 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

2012 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

DePaul University
\nStudent Center
\n2250 North Shefield Avenue
\nChicago, Illinois
\n2012-11-01 through 2012-11-04<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat is Critical Mixed Race Studies?,\u201d the biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, will be held at DePaul University in Chicago on November 1-4, 2012.<\/p>\n

The CMRS conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines nationwide. Recognizing that the diverse disciplines that have nurtured Mixed Race Studies have fostered different approaches to the field, the 2012 CMRS conference is devoted to the general theme \u201cWhat is Critical Mixed Race Studies?\u201d
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\nCritical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS) is the transracial, transdisciplinary, and transnational critical analysis of the institutionalization of social, cultural, and political orders based on dominant conceptions of race. CMRS emphasizes the mutability of race and the porosity of racial boundaries in order to critique processes of racialization and social stratification based on race. CMRS addresses local and global systemic injustices rooted in systems of racialization.<\/p>\n

For more information, click here<\/a>. View the final schedule here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I will deliver my paper, \u201cBarack, Blackness, Borders and Beyond: Exploring Obama\u2019s Racial Identity Today as a Means of Transcending Race Tomorrow,\u201d<\/strong> during the Session Three panel titled, \u201cAssessing Mixed\u2014Race Iconography: Barack Obama and Tiger Woods\u201d from 14:15-15:45 CDT <\/strong>(Local Time) in Room 313<\/strong>.\u00a0 The abstract of my paper is below:<\/p>\n

The racial identity of President Barack Obama<\/a> has been the topic of considerable discussion and debate. Despite the fact that Obama has always identified unambiguously as black\u2014most significantly in March, 2010 after filling out his census form<\/a>\u2014commentary continues to the point of unilaterally referring to him as \u201cbiracial\u201d within some camps.
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\nUsing three separate frameworks, I explain why Obama is indeed black.\u00a0 Firstly, I show that Obama is black within the framework of self-identification as crafted by the multiracial identity movement. Secondly, I show via an ethnological framework that Obama\u2019s heterogeneous ancestry reinforces<\/em> rather than weakens his cultural connection with black Americans.\u00a0 Lastly, and most importantly, I show within a sociological framework, that Obama is black because we perceive<\/em> him as such.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, I show how the multiracial movement reifies rather than blurs racialized boundaries; and that Obama\u2019s blackness creates one of the greatest challenges to this movement.\u00a0 Rather than concluding with a seemingly triumphalist Afro-centric focus, I will instead explain how Obama\u2019s \u201cblackness\u201d from \u201cwhite\/black\u201d parentage can be used to exemplify the social construction of race and can provide us a means to create meaningful discourses that may lead us beyond the illogical nature of racialization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2012 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference DePaul University Student Center 2250 North Shefield Avenue Chicago, Illinois 2012-11-01 through 2012-11-04 \u201cWhat is Critical Mixed Race Studies?,\u201d the biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, will be held at DePaul University in Chicago on November 1-4, 2012. The CMRS conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,13,20],"tags":[4204,1458],"class_list":["post-24904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-upcoming-media","category-liveevents","category-usa","tag-critical-mixed-race-studies-conference","tag-depaul-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24904","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=24904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}