{"id":36824,"date":"2014-07-11T06:25:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T06:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36824"},"modified":"2014-12-19T15:43:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:43:15","slug":"the-contemporary-american-fascination-with-mixed-race-and-biracial-identity-is-a-reflection-of-changing-demographics-and-globalization-it-is-also-a-surrender-to-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36824","title":{"rendered":"The contemporary American fascination with \u201cmixed race\u201d and \u201cbiracial\u201d identity is a reflection of changing demographics and globalization; it is also a surrender to and performance of a shallow type of faux cosmopolitanism."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThe contemporary American fascination with \u201cmixed race\u201d and \u201cbiracial\u201d identity is a reflection of changing demographics and globalization; it is also a surrender to and performance of a shallow type of faux cosmopolitanism.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the race scientists of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nazi_Germany\" target=\"_blank\">Nazi Germany<\/a>\u00a0and the United States, as well as the photographer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CYJO\" target=\"_blank\">Cyjo<\/a>\u00a0(whose work was featured in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/behold\/2014\/06\/24\/cyjo_mixed_blood_is_a_series_of_portraits_of_individuals_and_families_of.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Slate\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0essay<\/a>) who fetishize and find something \u201cstunning\u201d or \u201cinteresting\u201d about \u201cmixed race\u201d and\/or \u201cbiracial\u201d people (what are fictive identities, social constructs,\u00a0as there is only one race, the human race) share some common assumptions.<\/p>\n<p>One, that those types of \u201cracial\u201d identities are somehow new or novel. In fact, human history is a story of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a>\u201d and \u201cinterracial\u201d intimacy. Two, that those types of bodies and individuals merit study and analysis because there is some connection, either implied or explicitly stated, between genes, color, culture, destiny, and personal, as well as national \u201ccharacter.\u201d\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chauncey DeVega, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36768\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Stunning Portraits of Mixed Race Families\u2019?: Slate\u2019s Human Zoo of Race Mongrelization<\/a>,\u201d <em>We Are Respectable Negroes: Happy Non-Threatening Coloured Folks, Even in the Age of Obama<\/em>, June 25, 2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaunceydevega.com\/2014\/06\/stunning-portraits-of-mixed-race.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.chaunceydevega.com\/2014\/06\/stunning-portraits-of-mixed-race.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe contemporary American fascination with \u201cmixed race\u201d and \u201cbiracial\u201d identity is a reflection of changing demographics and globalization; it is also a surrender to and performance of a shallow type of faux cosmopolitanism. Ironically, the race scientists of\u00a0Nazi Germany\u00a0and the United States, as well as the photographer\u00a0Cyjo\u00a0(whose work was featured in\u00a0Slate\u2019s\u00a0essay) who fetishize and find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10174,17507],"class_list":["post-36824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-chauncey-devega","tag-cyjo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36824","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=36824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}