{"id":37168,"date":"2014-08-27T16:09:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T16:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37168"},"modified":"2014-08-27T16:09:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T16:09:15","slug":"what-are-you-racial-ambiguity-stigma-and-the-racial-formation-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37168","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat Are You?\u201d: Racial Ambiguity, Stigma, and the Racial Formation Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01639625.2014.901081\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u201cWhat Are You?\u201d: Racial Ambiguity, Stigma, and the Racial Formation Project<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/udbh20\" target=\"_blank\">Deviant Behavior<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/udbh20\/35\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 35, Issue 12, 2014<\/a><br \/>\npages 1006-1022<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01639625.2014.901081\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/01639625.2014.901081<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/tiffanie-grier\/14\/555\/972\" target=\"_blank\">Tiffanie Grier<\/a>,<\/strong> Career Placement Director &amp; Garden to Groceries Project Director<br \/>\n<em>Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis, Memphis Tennessee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolrambo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Carol Rambo<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Memphis, Memphis Tennessee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Marshall A. Taylor<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Using interview data from individuals who were frequently asked some version of the question \u201cWhat are you?\u201d in regards to their race, we apply a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deviance_(sociology)\" target=\"_blank\">deviance perspective<\/a> to frame these encounters as micro level racial formation projects. Racial formation projects are problematized when one\u2019s race is not readily classifiable. These data suggest that when race is perceptibly ambiguous, stigma is assigned and normativity is enforced through discursive constraint and other means. Racially ambiguous individuals use many forms of resistance to navigate these encounters and make identity claims that either affirm or endanger the normative racial formation order.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/01639625.2014.901081\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat Are You?\u201d: Racial Ambiguity, Stigma, and the Racial Formation Project Deviant Behavior Volume 35, Issue 12, 2014 pages 1006-1022 DOI: 10.1080\/01639625.2014.901081 Tiffanie Grier, Career Placement Director &amp; Garden to Groceries Project Director Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis, Memphis Tennessee Carol Rambo, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Memphis, Memphis Tennessee Marshall A. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394,20],"tags":[17813,17811,17809,17810,17812],"class_list":["post-37168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-carol-rambo","tag-deviant-behavior","tag-marshall-a-taylor","tag-marshall-taylor","tag-tiffanie-grier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37168","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=37168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}