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Panel discusses mixed race scholarship<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Washington Square News: NYU’s Independent Student Newspaper<\/a>
\n2015-04-21<\/p>\n

Amanda Morris<\/strong><\/a>, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nJared Sexton speaks on the topic of mixed race individuals. Sexton is the director of the African American Studies program in UC Irvine. (Shawn Paik<\/a>)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In studying mixed race identities, the historical focus has been on the individual, but speakers at Monday\u2019s roundtable conversation \u201cWhat\u2019s Radical About Mixed Race?<\/a>\u201d aimed to reframe discussion in a way that allows for more nuanced understanding of racial identity.<\/p>\n

Speakers at the event, which was hosted by the Asian\/Pacific\/American Institute<\/a>, included Minelle Mahtani<\/a>, an associate professor at the University of Toronto, and Jared Sexton<\/a>, an associate professor and director of African American studies at the University of California, Irvine.<\/p>\n

Sexton said hypodescent<\/a>, a condition in which people with multiple race identities are automatically classified according to their non-white race, is one of the concerns researchers of mixed race have had in the past. Sexton said he wants researchers to re-examine this issue in a larger framework of racial stereotypes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the preoccupations are the issue of hypodescent and challenging its reflexive use, but in challenging hypodescent, multiracial studies also runs the risk of re-stigmatizing the very identities that it claims to combine,\u201d Sexton said.<\/p>\n

Mahtani said some mixed raced individuals try to fuse their various identities, but often reinforce white supremacy by ignoring their non-white ancestry. Mahtani added that the media often takes advantage of people of mixed race, using their perceived racial ambiguity to appeal to several demographics at once…<\/p>\n

…\u201cWe need to ask new questions,\u201d Mahtani said. \u201cNot \u2018What is mixed race?\u2019 but \u2018How does the meaning of mixed race change over time?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

University of Washington student Na\u2019quel Walker, who attended the event, said she often had trouble with her identity as a child.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was younger, for me to say \u2018I\u2019m mixed,\u2019 was to denounce blackness,\u201d Walker said. \u201cI was trying to elevate myself because I wanted to feel special or different, but I was running away from my blackness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicole Holliday, a doctoral student at NYU in linguistics who is studying the speech patterns of people of mixed race, agreed that research into mixed race culture needs to take a new approach…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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