{"id":26997,"date":"2012-12-19T03:51:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T03:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26997"},"modified":"2012-12-19T03:51:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T03:51:29","slug":"reflections-on-critical-mixed-race-studies-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26997","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/cbbg.brooklynhistory.org\/blog\/reflections-critical-mixed-race-studies-conference\" target=\"_blank\">Reflections on Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbbg.brooklynhistory.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynhistory.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Historical Society<\/a><br \/>\nNovember 2012<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rita Kamani-Renedo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend the second biennial <a href=\"http:\/\/las.depaul.edu\/aas\/About\/CMRSConference\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference<\/a> at DePaul University in Chicago. I was excited to return after having attended the inaugural conference in 2010. This time, I went as a representative of <em>Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations<\/em> to share with conference participants the work around identity, multiraciality and oral history that the Brooklyn Historical Society has been doing and explore some of the powerful implications CBBG can have both inside and beyond the walls of academia.<\/p>\n<p>To give you a little background, the Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS) Conference is organized by faculty members of various universities and hosted by DePaul University\u2019s Global Asian Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies programs. Though mixed race studies has existed for some time, the conference\u2014and a forthcoming academic journal\u2014were created to provide a space for \u201ca recursive and reflexive approach to the field.\u201d According to conference organizers, CMRS is \u201cthe 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.\u201d With this in mind, I went to the conference eager to engage in conversations about the changing discourse around race and racial identity, race-based social stratification that persists in our society, and the role of scholarship, activism and the arts in challenging dominant narratives around mixed-race&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/cbbg.brooklynhistory.org\/blog\/reflections-critical-mixed-race-studies-conference\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections on Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Brooklyn Historical Society November 2012 Rita Kamani-Renedo Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend the second biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul University in Chicago. I was excited to return after having attended the inaugural conference in 2010. This time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,20],"tags":[6560,4204,13113],"class_list":["post-26997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-brooklyn-historical-society","tag-critical-mixed-race-studies-conference","tag-rita-kamani-renedo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26997","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=26997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}