{"id":26308,"date":"2012-11-01T04:26:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T04:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26308"},"modified":"2016-10-07T00:56:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T00:56:21","slug":"michele-elam-the-souls-of-mixed-folk-race-politics-and-aesthetics-in-the-new-millennium-johnson-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26308","title":{"rendered":"Michele Elam: The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics and Aesthetics in the New Millennium [Johnson Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/newbooksinafroamstudies.com\/2012\/10\/31\/michele-elam-the-souls-of-mixed-folk-race-politics-and-aesthetics-in-the-new-millennium-stanford-up-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Elam: The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics and Aesthetics in the New Millennium [Johnson Review]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newbooksinafroamstudies.com\" target=\"_blank\">New Books in African American Studies: Discussions with Scholars of African Americans about Their New Books<\/a><br \/>\n2012-10-31<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvsu.edu\/english\/johnson-profile-147.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sherry Johnson<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you?\u201d The question can often comes out of nowhere One can be going about her quotidian activities, or she might have just finished a meeting at work. \u201cWhat are you?\u201d The question is disorienting for most, but for others who are racially ambiguous it is commonplace. The ostensibly benign question suggests that it is about the person being asked. However, one might argue that it is more about the one who does the asking. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=9628\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Milleniu<\/em>m<\/a> (Stanford University Press, 2011), <a href=\"https:\/\/english.stanford.edu\/people\/michele-elam\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Elam<\/a> critically discusses the rise of the Mixed Race Studies. To demonstrate the new sub-genre of cultural studies in both art and academia Elam shows elements of what mixed-racedness looks like in the classroom, as well as in the public sphere here at the turn of the 21st century&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/newbooksinafroamstudies.com\/2012\/10\/31\/michele-elam-the-souls-of-mixed-folk-race-politics-and-aesthetics-in-the-new-millennium-stanford-up-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Listen to the interview (00:59:00) <a href=\"http:\/\/files.newbooksnetwork.com\/afroam\/025afroamelam.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michele Elam: The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics and Aesthetics in the New Millennium [Johnson Review] New Books in African American Studies: Discussions with Scholars of African Americans about Their New Books 2012-10-31 Sherry Johnson, Assistant Professor of English Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan \u201cWhat are you?\u201d The question can often comes out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,20],"tags":[1386,8479,12628],"class_list":["post-26308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-michele-elam","tag-new-books-in-african-american-studies","tag-sherry-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26308","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=26308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49330,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26308\/revisions\/49330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}