{"id":39720,"date":"2015-01-28T02:39:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T02:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39720"},"modified":"2018-08-23T03:16:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T03:16:50","slug":"mixed-kids-roundtable-the-politics-of-multiracialism-and-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39720","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Kids Roundtable: The Politics of Multiracialism and Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed Kids Roundtable: The Politics of Multiracialism and Identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

iMiXWHATiLiKE!: Emancipatory Journalism and Broadcasting<\/a>
\n2015-01-23<\/p>\n

Jared Ball<\/strong><\/a>, Host and Professor of Communication Studies
\nMorgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland<\/em><\/p>\n

We were joined in this edition of iMiXWHATiLiKE!<\/em><\/a> by a roundtable of panelists for a discussion of the politics of multiracialism and identity. Our guests included: Dr. Ralina Joseph<\/a><\/strong>, associate professor in UW\u2019s Department of Communication and adjunct associate professor in the Departments of American Ethnic Studies and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Her first book, Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial<\/em><\/a> (Duke University Press, 2012), critiques anti-Black racism in mixed-race African American representations in the decade leading up to Obama\u2019s 2008 election; Dr. Darwin Fishman<\/strong>, Adjunct Professor at San Diego City College; and Ms. Lisa Fager<\/strong><\/a>, Professional agitator, Free Mind. Co-founder Industry Ears<\/a>. Social market-er. HIV\/AIDS Advocate. Indy Voter. Hip Hop. Black. White. Spook Who Sat By the Door. We talked about the film Dear White People<\/em><\/a> and more generally about the history of multiracial identities and the politics of popular culture representation of those identities, and bunch more!<\/p>\n