{"id":40803,"date":"2015-05-19T19:29:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T19:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40803"},"modified":"2016-10-19T19:45:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T19:45:04","slug":"whats-radical-about-mixed-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40803","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Radical About \u201cMixed Race?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyu-apastudies.org\/2012\/event\/whats-radical-about-mixed-race\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>What\u2019s Radical About \u201cMixed Race?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apa.nyu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian\/Pacific\/American Institute at NYU<\/a><br \/>\n8 Washington Mews<br \/>\nNew York, New York 10003<br \/>\nPhone: (212) 998-3700<br \/>\n<strong>Monday, 2015-04-20, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) | Free<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jSMQpRzcGpA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Since the 1990s, mainstream media has heralded the growing population of self-identified \u201cmixed race\u201d people in the US and Canada as material proof of a post-racial era (a recent example: <em>National Geographic\u2018s<\/em> 2013 feature \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=33601\" target=\"_blank\">The Changing Face of America<\/a>,\u201d whose title paraphrases a <em>Time<\/em> feature [at right] from two decades prior). Meanwhile, foundational multiracial activists and scholars like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drmariaroot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maria Root<\/a> claim a doubled oppression\u2014racism via white supremacy and ostracizing from so-called \u201cmonoracial\u201d people of color. A growing body of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Critical_Mixed_Race_Studies\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Mixed Race Studies <\/a>literature is challenging both positions, questioning the assumption that multiracial activism and scholarship is necessarily anti-racist.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utsc.utoronto.ca\/geography\/minelle-mahtani\" target=\"_blank\">Minelle Mahtani<\/a><\/strong> critically locates how an apolitical and ahistorical Canadian \u201cmodel multiracial\u201d upholds the multicultural claims of the Canadian settler state. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faculty.uci.edu\/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5113\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jared Sexton<\/strong><\/a> calls to task multiracial activists who leverage a mixed race identity in opposition to those who are \u201call black, all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eschewing an apolitical \u201ccelebration\u201d of mixed race, this panel examines the movement\u2019s implications for multiracial coalition and the future of race in the US and Canada, asking: does the multiracial movement challenge\u2014or actually reinforce\u2014the logics of structural racism?.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s Radical About \u201cMixed Race?\u201d Asian\/Pacific\/American Institute at NYU 8 Washington Mews New York, New York 10003 Phone: (212) 998-3700 Monday, 2015-04-20, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) | Free Since the 1990s, mainstream media has heralded the growing population of self-identified \u201cmixed race\u201d people in the US and Canada as material proof of a post-racial era [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,19,1196,8,26,394,20],"tags":[19953,19948,19845,1471,517,6306,19846],"class_list":["post-40803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-canada","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-apa","tag-asianpacificamerican-institute","tag-asianpacificamerican-institute-at-nyu","tag-jared-sexton","tag-minelle-mahtani","tag-new-york-university","tag-nyu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40803","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=40803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43851,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40803\/revisions\/43851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}