{"id":30412,"date":"2013-04-15T04:38:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T04:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30412"},"modified":"2013-04-15T04:38:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T04:38:40","slug":"transcending-blackness-from-the-new-millennium-mulatta-to-the-exceptional-multiracial-gaither-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30412","title":{"rendered":"Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial [Gaither Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/mxdwell.com\/article.php?ID=29\" target=\"_blank\">Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial [Gaither Review]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mxdwell.com\" target=\"_blank\">MXDWELL<\/a><br \/>\n2013-02-17<\/p>\n<p><strong>Renoir Gaither<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>MXDWELL is a versatile online news source that celebrates and redefines the mixed experience by presenting a variety of cultural and artistic news, while promoting diversity as a vital aspect of our community.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Behind her behemoth title, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22194\" target=\"_blank\">Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulattato the Exceptional Multiracial<\/a>,\u201d author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.com.washington.edu\/joseph\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ralina L. Joseph<\/a> carries on the business of dissecting multiracial representation in American popular culture with acuity and zeal.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a study that cedes little to those who decry that race no longer matters in American society. Over the past few decades a groundswell of scholarly attention has sprouted on the subject of multiraciality. And hybridity and critical mixed-race theorists continue to stake claims on the theoretical landscape. Professor Joseph acquires her piece of theoretical real estate through interdisciplinary analysis of mixed-race characters in contemporary film, fiction and television, in particular, representations of mixed-race African Americans. Joseph tackles a multitude of cavernous issues surrounding such representations, ever delving into the intersectionality of race, gender, sexuality and class, and the many codes in which the latter are inscribed on mixed-race representation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/mxdwell.com\/article.php?ID=29\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial [Gaither Review] MXDWELL 2013-02-17 Renoir Gaither MXDWELL is a versatile online news source that celebrates and redefines the mixed experience by presenting a variety of cultural and artistic news, while promoting diversity as a vital aspect of our community. Behind her behemoth title, \u201cTranscending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8413,8,20,25],"tags":[14414,1980,1444,4749,1047],"class_list":["post-30412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-mxdwell","tag-ralina-joseph","tag-ralina-l-joseph","tag-ralina-landwehr-joseph","tag-renoir-gaither"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30412","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=30412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}