{"id":25324,"date":"2012-09-12T17:40:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T17:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25324"},"modified":"2012-09-12T17:40:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T17:40:12","slug":"reflections-of-a-racial-queer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25324","title":{"rendered":"Reflections of a Racial Queer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/15210960.2010.481213\" target=\"_blank\">Reflections of a Racial Queer<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/hmcp20\" target=\"_blank\">Multicultural Perspectives<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/hmcp20\/12\/2\" target=\"_blank\"> Volume 12, Issue 2<\/a>, 2010<br \/>\npages 107-112<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/15210960.2010.481213\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/15210960.2010.481213<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aurora Chang-Ross<\/strong><br \/>\n<em> Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this article, I reflect on my personal experiences of racial queerness. In an effort to speak my secrets, I explore my identity production as a Multiracial person by critically examining my positionality throughout various key stages in my life. I present Multiracial microaggressions \u2013those accumulated moments that underscore my racial queerness and argue that these phenomena, while taxing, also confer agency. I propose a conceptual framework that incorporates both <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Queer_theory\" target=\"_blank\">queer theory<\/a> and borderlands theory as a potential framework from which to study how Multiracial individuals are positioned as racial queers. I argue that queerness, for the Multiracial individual, may denote both deviance (from the monoracial norm) and a unique individuality (stemming from one\u2019s Multiracial background). By offering my testimonial as a racial queer and introducing the racial queer conceptual framework, I come a bit closer to naming my experience as a Multiracial individual and providing a space from which others can do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/15210960.2010.481213\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections of a Racial Queer Multicultural Perspectives Volume 12, Issue 2, 2010 pages 107-112 DOI: 10.1080\/15210960.2010.481213 Aurora Chang-Ross Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin In this article, I reflect on my personal experiences of racial queerness. In an effort to speak my secrets, I explore my identity production as a Multiracial person by critically examining my positionality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,666,125,8],"tags":[7319,2196],"class_list":["post-25324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-gaylesbian","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-aurora-chang-ross","tag-multicultural-perspectives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25324","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=25324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}