{"id":26464,"date":"2012-11-14T14:50:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T14:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26464"},"modified":"2017-03-30T12:50:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T12:50:43","slug":"left-of-black-s3e9-racial-passing-and-the-rise-of-multiracialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26464","title":{"rendered":"Left of Black S3:E9 | Racial Passing and the Rise of Multiracialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/leftofblack.tumblr.com\/post\/35600752875\/lobs3e9\" target=\"_blank\">Left of Black S3:E9 | Racial Passing and the Rise of Multiracialism<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leftofblack.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Left of Black<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jhfc.duke.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Hope Franklin Center<\/a><br \/>\nDuke University<br \/>\n2012-11-12<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/aaas.duke.edu\/people?Gurl=\/aas\/AAAS&amp;Uil=man9&amp;subpage=profile\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Anthony Neal<\/a><\/strong>, Host and Professor of African &amp; African American Studies<br \/>\n<em>Duke University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/annenberg.usc.edu\/Faculty\/Communication%20and%20Journalism\/DawkinsM.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Marcia Alesan Dawkins<\/a><\/strong>, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communications<br \/>\n<em>University of Southern California, Annenberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/engl\/people\/profile.php?id=1056\" target=\"_blank\">Habiba Ibrahim<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>University of Washington<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sXCNEK8USZ8?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For many African Americans, the practice of \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">Passing<\/a>\u2019\u2014where light-skinned Blacks could pass for White\u2014remains a thing connected to a difficult racial past. In her new book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22018\" target=\"_blank\">Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity<\/a><\/em> (Baylor University Press), Marcia Dawkins, a professor in the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California provides a fresh take on the practice arguing that passing in the contemporary moment transcends racial performance.<\/p>\n<p>Dawkins talks about her new book with <em>Left of Black<\/em> host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal, via Skype.\u00a0 Neal is also joined by University of Washington Professor Habiba Ibrahim for part one of a two-part interview about her new book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=23999\" target=\"_blank\">Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism<\/a><\/em> (University of Minnesota Press) in which she links the rise of Multiracialism in the 1990s to the maintenance of traditional gender norms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many African Americans, the practice of \u2018Passing\u2019\u2014where light-skinned Blacks could pass for White\u2014remains a thing connected to a difficult racial past. In her new book, Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity (Baylor University Press), Marcia Dawkins, a professor in the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California provides a fresh take on the practice arguing that passing in the contemporary moment transcends racial performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,8,6462,394,20,842],"tags":[4711,1979,12717,12718,3083,2408,2406,11168,105],"class_list":["post-26464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-census","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-videos","tag-duke-university","tag-habiba-ibrahim","tag-john-hope-franklin-center","tag-left-of-black","tag-marcia-a-dawkins","tag-marcia-alesan-dawkins","tag-marcia-dawkins","tag-mark-anthony-neal","tag-tiger-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26464","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=26464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53098,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26464\/revisions\/53098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}