{"id":33711,"date":"2013-09-19T22:05:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T22:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33711"},"modified":"2014-10-05T20:29:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T20:29:38","slug":"%e2%80%98it%e2%80%99s-not-written-on-their-skin-like-it-is-ours%e2%80%99-greek-letter-organizations-in-the-age-of-the-multicultural-imperative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33711","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s not written on their skin like it is ours\u2019: Greek letter organizations in the age of the multicultural imperative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1468796812471127\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018It\u2019s not written on their skin like it is ours\u2019: Greek letter organizations in the age of the multicultural imperative<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etn.sagepub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ethnicities<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/etn.sagepub.com\/content\/13\/5.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 13, Number 5<\/a> (October 2013)<br \/>\npages 519-543<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1468796812471127\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/1468796812471127<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:jhunter35@radford.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Joanna S. Hunter<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Radford University, Radford, Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewhughey.com\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew W. Hughey<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Connecticut<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s students wrestle with the continued salience of racial identity on campuses that encourage the celebration of \u2018diversity\u2019 while at once digesting messages that the USA is now largely \u2018post-racial\u2019. Based on data collected through fieldwork observation, focus groups and in-depth interviews with a local Multicultural Greek Council for fraternities and sororities, we argue that \u2018multicultural\u2019 student organizations engage in a variety of racial identity tactics that <strong>simultaneously constrain and enable the perception of their racial identities.<\/strong> By relying on the two cultural narratives of multiculturalism\u2014abstract and organizational\u2014members of Greek organizations that do not conform to the White\/Black binary can construct identities and a movement understood as rational, progressive and generally innocuous. Yet, in practice, the dominant expectations to perform \u2018multiculturalism\u2019 were manifest in narrow, essentialist and singular expressions of ethnic pride as an oppositional identity to Anglo-conformity and color-blindness, rather than an embrace of pluralism and multiculturalism <em>per se<\/em>. By highlighting how members of multicultural student organizations navigate this troubling paradox, our study raises important questions about the concept of multiculturalism, especially as it is constructed and enacted by the millennial generation.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/etn.sagepub.com\/content\/13\/5\/519.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018It\u2019s not written on their skin like it is ours\u2019: Greek letter organizations in the age of the multicultural imperative Ethnicities Volume 13, Number 5 (October 2013) pages 519-543 DOI: 10.1177\/1468796812471127 Joanna S. Hunter, Assistant Professor of Sociology Radford University, Radford, Virginia Matthew W. Hughey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Today\u2019s students wrestle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8,394,20],"tags":[994,15845,15844,12233,12234],"class_list":["post-33711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-ethnicities","tag-joanna-hunter","tag-joanna-s-hunter","tag-matthew-hughey","tag-matthew-w-hughey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33711","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=33711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}