{"id":2638,"date":"2009-10-30T15:35:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T15:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2017-04-08T02:33:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T02:33:49","slug":"mixed-race-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2638","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Race Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/books\/9780814799895\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Race Hollywood<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyupress.org\" target=\"_blank\">New York\u00a0University Press<\/a><br \/>\n2008<br \/>\n352 pages<br \/>\n20 illustrations<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780814799895<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 9780814799888<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edited by<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rtf.utexas.edu\/faculty\/mary-beltr%C3%A1n\" target=\"_blank\">Mary C. Beltr\u00e1n<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Media Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Texas, Austin<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/las.depaul.edu\/lals\/People\/FacultyBiographies\/CamillaFojas.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Camilla Fojas<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor and Director of Latin American and Latino Studies<br \/>\n<em>DePaul University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/books\/9780814799895\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/71pSZh0Uu2L.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A <em>Kansas City Star<\/em> 2008 Notable Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the early days of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cinema_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood<\/a> film, portrayals of interracial romance and of individuals of mixed racial and ethnic heritage have served to highlight and challenge fault lines within Hollywood and the nation\u2019s racial categories and borders. <em>Mixed Race Hollywood<\/em> is a pioneering compilation of essays on mixed-race romance, individuals, families, and stars in U.S. film and media culture.<\/p>\n<p>Situated at the cutting-edge juncture of ethnic studies and media studies, this collection addresses early mixed-race film characters, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blaxploitation\" target=\"_blank\">Blaxploitation<\/a>, mixed race in children\u2019s television programming, and the &#8220;outing&#8221; of mixed-race stars on the Internet, among other issues and contemporary trends in mixed-race representation. The contributors explore this history and current trends from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives in order to better understand the evolving conception of race and ethnicity in contemporary culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the early days of Hollywood film, portrayals of interracial romance and of individuals of mixed racial and ethnic heritage have served to highlight and challenge fault lines within Hollywood and the nation\u2019s racial categories and borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,8413,1196,8,394,20],"tags":[847,1903,846,962,707],"class_list":["post-2638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-books","category-communications","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-camilla-fojas","tag-mary-beltran","tag-mary-c-beltran","tag-new-york-university-press","tag-nyu-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638","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=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53317,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions\/53317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}