{"id":32709,"date":"2013-08-04T18:11:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T18:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32709"},"modified":"2013-08-04T18:11:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T18:11:31","slug":"mixed-races-mixed-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32709","title":{"rendered":"Mixed races, mixed messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www5.uwm.edu\/news\/2013\/08\/02\/mixed-races-mixed-messages\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed races, mixed messages<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www5.uwm.edu\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\">UWM News<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Wisconsin, Milwaukee<br \/>\n2013-08-02<\/p>\n<p>A recent Cheerios commercial featuring a white mother, black father and their daughter attracted a few nasty comments, followed by a huge outpouring of support, with 95 percent of viewers \u201cliking\u201d the commercial.<\/p>\n<p>The recent advertisement is just one reflection of America\u2019s long history of strong feelings about interracial relationships.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/letsci\/history\/faculty\/carter.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Carter<\/a>, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, traces the history of how such relationships have been both demonized and praised in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=26258\" target=\"_blank\">The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 The book looks at the ways Americans have thought about racial mixing from Colonial times to the present.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a lot of attention, and an increase in visibility of people of mixed racial heritage,\u201d says Carter. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a> and golf champion <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiger_Woods\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger Woods<\/a>, in particular, have raised the profile of people of mixed race in recent years. In addition, the Census Bureau and other government agencies have broadened the number of choices people have in filling out the \u201crace\u201d box on federal forms&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www5.uwm.edu\/news\/2013\/08\/02\/mixed-races-mixed-messages\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed races, mixed messages UWM News University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 2013-08-02 A recent Cheerios commercial featuring a white mother, black father and their daughter attracted a few nasty comments, followed by a huge outpouring of support, with 95 percent of viewers \u201cliking\u201d the commercial. The recent advertisement is just one reflection of America\u2019s long history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,20],"tags":[1972,15341],"class_list":["post-32709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-greg-carter","tag-uwm-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32709","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=32709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}