{"id":31899,"date":"2013-06-25T04:16:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T04:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31899"},"modified":"2013-06-25T04:16:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T04:16:07","slug":"guest-the-fury-over-a-cheerios-ad-and-an-interracial-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31899","title":{"rendered":"Guest: The fury over a Cheerios ad and an interracial family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/opinion\/2021263203_ralinajosephopedxml.html\" target=\"_blank\">Guest: The fury over a Cheerios ad and an interracial family<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Seattle Times<\/a><br \/>\n2013-06-24<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.com.washington.edu\/joseph\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ralina Joseph<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Communication<br \/>\n<em>University of Washington<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The response to a Cheerios TV ad exposes American discomfort with interracial families, writes guest columnist Ralina Joseph<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A RECENT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kYofm5d5Xdw&amp;feature=c4-overview&amp;list=UU2-_u8-TVEsCD3uxeUO0fUA\" target=\"_blank\">Cheerios television ad<\/a> has all of the elements that viewers usually glaze over because of their sheer ubiquity: a light-filled, eat-in kitchen with an attractive mother checking off tasks at the table, a button-down shirt and slacks-wearing father indulging in a quick after-work nap and a chubby-cheeked, curly-haired 6-year-old girl with a lisp.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of disappearing into the ether, as TV spots tend to, this particular nuclear family advertisement has sparked such fury that Cheerios\u2019 YouTube channel was forced to disable its comments section.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because the mother is white, the father is black, and the girl appears to be their biological, mixed-race child&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Anti-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> laws, <strong>on the books in some states in this country from 1661 to 1967<\/strong>, were justified by fear of such couplings and their result. In the 1930s, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington_(state)\" target=\"_blank\">Washington<\/a> state led the country in striking down attempts to ban interracial marriage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire opinion piece <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/opinion\/2021263203_ralinajosephopedxml.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest: The fury over a Cheerios ad and an interracial family The Seattle Times 2013-06-24 Ralina Joseph, Associate Professor of Communication University of Washington The response to a Cheerios TV ad exposes American discomfort with interracial families, writes guest columnist Ralina Joseph A RECENT Cheerios television ad has all of the elements that viewers usually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8,20],"tags":[14814,14861,1980,1444,4749,9872,5408],"class_list":["post-31899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-cheerios","tag-general-mills","tag-ralina-joseph","tag-ralina-l-joseph","tag-ralina-landwehr-joseph","tag-seattle-times","tag-the-seattle-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31899","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=31899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}