{"id":2830,"date":"2013-04-03T03:48:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T03:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2013-09-25T18:16:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T18:16:33","slug":"whats-in-a-name-exploring-the-employment-of-mixed-race-as-an-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2830","title":{"rendered":"What’s in a name? Exploring the employment of \u2018mixed race’ as an identification"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s in a name? Exploring the employment of \u00a0\u2018mixed race’ as an identification<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ethnicities<\/a>
\nVolume 2, Number 4<\/a> (December 2002)
\npages\u00a0469-490
\nDOI: 10.1177\/14687968020020040201<\/a><\/p>\n

Minelle Mahtani<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Geography and Journalism
\nUniversity of Toronto<\/em><\/p>\n

In the last 20 years, we have witnessed an explosion in scholarship and popular media accounts about the experience of \u2018mixed race’ identity. Despite the increasing numbers of people who now identify as \u2018mixed race’, relatively little research has been conducted on how \u2018mixed race’ individuals consider this particular label of identity.<\/strong> Through qualitative, open-ended interviews with self-identified women of \u2018mixed race’ living in Toronto, this article interrogates attachments to the identification of `mixed race’. The article begins by examining the popular discourse surrounding `mixed race’ identity, suggesting that the public imaginary positions the \u2018mixed race’ woman as \u2018out of place’ in the social landscape.<\/strong> It then explores how many women create cartographies of belonging by identifying as `mixed race’, reading the label as a `linguistic home’. It can provide a way to identify outside of constraining racialized categories of identity. The article also points out that many of the same women in this study effectively challenge, contest and discard the identification, dependent on a myriad of factors.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read or purchase the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s in a name? Exploring the employment of \u00a0\u2018mixed race’ as an identification Ethnicities Volume 2, Number 4 (December 2002) pages\u00a0469-490 DOI: 10.1177\/14687968020020040201 Minelle Mahtani, Professor of Geography and Journalism University of Toronto In the last 20 years, we have witnessed an explosion in scholarship and popular media accounts about the experience of \u2018mixed race’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,125,8,394,25],"tags":[994,517,2372],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-women","tag-ethnicities","tag-minelle-mahtani","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","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=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}