{"id":46016,"date":"2016-03-13T19:12:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T19:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46016"},"modified":"2016-03-15T03:02:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T03:02:04","slug":"mixed-race-politics-bill-de-blasios-2013-new-york-city-mayoral-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46016","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-Race Politics: Bill de Blasio\u2019s 2013 New York City Mayoral Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsa.umich.edu\/english\/events\/eventDetail.asp?ID=3558\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed-Race Politics: Bill de Blasio\u2019s 2013 New York City Mayoral Campaign<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>University of Michigan<br \/>\nHaven Hall, Room 4701<br \/>\n505 State Street<br \/>\nAnn Arbor, Michigan<br \/>\n<strong>Monday, 2016-03-14, 17:30 CDT (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lsa.umich.edu\/ac\/people\/graduate-students\/maycurry.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle May-Curry<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nAmerican Culture<\/p>\n<p><em>Please join the Black Humanities Collective as we workshop a presentation by Michelle May-Curry, a doctoral student in American Culture. Dinner will be served. Though RSVP&#8217;s are not required, they are encouraged. Graduate students, undergraduates, and faculty in and outside of the humanities are welcomed to attend.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This paper investigates the ways in which multicultural rhetoric situates black-white mixed-race individuals and their families as a bridge between disparate groups and ideologies. Using <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_de_Blasio\" target=\"_blank\">Bill de Blasio\u2019s<\/a> New York City Mayoral campaign in 2013 as a case study, I highlight specific media moments in which de Blasio\u2019s children and his interracial marriage to a black woman are deployed as symbols of political (and by extension, racial) futurity. The key questions of this paper ask: How was mixed-race as a symbol deployed in the de Blasio campaign, particularly in the context of the family? What specifically did mixed-race symbolize in this political sphere? Did de Blasio&#8217;s family fight back against essentialized multicultural ideals or simply deploy them to capture the minority vote? In answering these questions I conduct a close reading of de Blasio\u2019s well-known TV advertisement featuring his then 15-year-old son Dante, and put it in conversation with persistent racisms in the form of police brutality, an issue that was central to de Blasio\u2019s campaign. This work engages topics at the intersection of critical mixed-race studies, performance studies, and visual culture, drawing upon and contesting current research that places mixed-race people at the forefront of a changing American demographic and political climate.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsa.umich.edu\/english\/events\/eventDetail.asp?ID=3558\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed-Race Politics: Bill de Blasio\u2019s 2013 New York City Mayoral Campaign University of Michigan Haven Hall, Room 4701 505 State Street Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, 2016-03-14, 17:30 CDT (Local Time) Michelle May-Curry American Culture Please join the Black Humanities Collective as we workshop a presentation by Michelle May-Curry, a doctoral student in American Culture. 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