{"id":3555,"date":"2009-12-01T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2016-06-18T03:45:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T03:45:47","slug":"stanford-profs-examine-mixed-race-in-u-s-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3555","title":{"rendered":"Stanford profs examine mixed race in U.S. society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thedartmouth.com\/2008\/04\/18\/stanford-profs-examine-mixed-race-in-us-society\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford profs examine mixed race in U.S. society<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedartmouth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Dartmouth<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thedartmouth.com\/author\/victoria-boggiano\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Victoria Boggiano<\/strong><\/a>, The Dartmouth Staff<br \/>\n2008-04-18<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, the U.S. Census gave Americans the chance to identify themselves by more than one race for the first time. Almost seven million people &#8212; over 80 percent of whom were under 25 &#8212; checked more than one box, Stanford University professors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/howiwrite\/Bios\/harryelam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harry<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/english.stanford.edu\/people\/michele-elam\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Elam<\/a> told a crowded auditorium in Haldeman Hall on Thursday. <strong>A new global &#8220;mixed-race movement&#8221; has begun, they said in their lecture, titled &#8220;The High Stakes of Mixed Race: Post-Race, Post-Apartheid Performances in the U.S. and South Africa.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The couple&#8217;s research stems from studies they have conducted to analyze theatrical performances in the United States and South Africa. Claiming that performance is a &#8220;transformative force for institutional and social change,&#8221; the Elams examined a variety of plays from these two countries. The research provided the couple with insight into the effect of the worldwide &#8220;mixed-race movement&#8221; on race politics and cultural identities, Harry said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re arguing that analyzing mixed race as a type of social performance can help us make sense of some of these new cultural dynamics,&#8221; he said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;In the United States, the &#8220;mixed-race movement&#8221; is comprised of an uneasy coalition of &#8220;interracial couples, transracial adoptees and a new generation of mixed-race-identified youth,&#8221; the Elams said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thedartmouth.com\/2008\/04\/18\/stanford-profs-examine-mixed-race-in-us-society\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford profs examine mixed race in U.S. society The Dartmouth Victoria Boggiano, The Dartmouth Staff 2008-04-18 In 2000, the U.S. Census gave Americans the chance to identify themselves by more than one race for the first time. Almost seven million people &#8212; over 80 percent of whom were under 25 &#8212; checked more than one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,33,125,8,26,394,520,20],"tags":[1387,1386,1385,1388],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-south-africa","category-usa","tag-harry-elam","tag-michele-elam","tag-the-dartmouth","tag-victoria-boggiano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555","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=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47749,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions\/47749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}