{"id":41225,"date":"2015-05-26T15:21:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41225"},"modified":"2015-05-26T15:21:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:21:09","slug":"a-mixed-race-person-may-be-viewed-as-polluted-defective-confusing-or-confused-passing-threatening-or-in-our-diversity-obsessed-society-as-opportunistic-gaining-an-advantage-by-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41225","title":{"rendered":"A mixed-race person may be viewed as polluted, defective, confusing or confused, passing, threatening, or\u2014in our diversity-obsessed society\u2014as opportunistic, gaining an advantage by identifying with a group in which he is at best a partial member. These negative associations may be distinguished from those directed at people perceived as monoracial."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I readily acknowledge some overlap between what we might call\u00a0monoracial and multiracial animus: a racist who dislikes people who\u00a0she views as Asian might well dislike an individual whom she identifies as part-Asian for some of the same reasons. But viewing\u00a0someone as part-Asian also lends itself to unique forms of animus not\u00a0directed at those perceived as monoracial. A mixed-race person may\u00a0be viewed as polluted, defective, confusing or confused, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a>,\u00a0threatening, or\u2014in our diversity-obsessed society\u2014as opportunistic,\u00a0gaining an advantage by identifying with a group in which he is at\u00a0best a partial member. These negative associations may be\u00a0distinguished from those directed at people perceived as monoracial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/law.du.edu\/index.php\/profile\/nancy-leong\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Leong<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5358\" target=\"_blank\">Judicial Erasure of Mixed-Race Discrimination<\/a>,\u201d <em>American University Law Review<\/em>, (Volume 59, Number 3,\u00a0February 2010) 483-484. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcl.american.edu\/journal\/lawrev\/59\/leong.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wcl.american.edu\/journal\/lawrev\/59\/leong.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I readily acknowledge some overlap between what we might call\u00a0monoracial and multiracial animus: a racist who dislikes people who\u00a0she views as Asian might well dislike an individual whom she identifies as part-Asian for some of the same reasons. But viewing\u00a0someone as part-Asian also lends itself to unique forms of animus not\u00a0directed at those perceived as [&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":[2234,1959],"class_list":["post-41225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-american-university-law-review","tag-nancy-leong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41225","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=41225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}