{"id":47636,"date":"2016-06-14T01:34:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T01:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47636"},"modified":"2016-07-04T19:41:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T19:41:54","slug":"what-are-you-mixed-race-responses-to-the-racial-gaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47636","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat are you?\u201d: Mixed race responses to the racial gaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1468796815621938\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u201cWhat are you?\u201d: Mixed race responses to the racial gaze<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etn.sagepub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ethnicities<\/a><br \/>\nPublished online before print 2015-12-16<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1468796815621938\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/1468796815621938<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.ualberta.ca\/FacultyStaffandGraduateStudent\/PhDStudents\/ParaggJillian.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jillian Paragg<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDepartment of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mixed race scholarship considers the deployment of the term \u201cmixed race\u201d as an identification and theorizes that the operation of the external racial gaze is signaled through the \u201cwhat are you?\u201d question that mixed race people face in their everyday lives. In interviews conducted with mixed race, young adults in a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_Canada\" target=\"_blank\">Western Canadian<\/a> urban context, it was evident that the \u201cwhat are you?\u201d question is the verbal form of the external racial gaze\u2019s production of ambivalence on mixed race bodies. However, this study also found that mixed race people have \u201cready\u201d identity narratives in response to the \u201cwhat are you?\u201d question. This paper shows the importance of these narratives (the very existence of the \u201cready\u201d narratives, as well as the content of the \u201cready\u201d narrative) for fleshing out the operation of the external racial gaze in the Canadian context. Respondents draw on two closely related modes of narrating origin when responding to the \u201cwhat are you?\u201d question: they respond through a kinship narrative that is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/heteronormative\" target=\"_blank\">heteronormative<\/a> and they narrate that they inherit \u201cnational origin\u201d \u201cthrough blood.\u201d I argue that these responses point to how the gaze produces the multiracialized body through the desire to imagine and \u201cknow\u201d its originary point of racial mixing. Yet, the \u201cready\u201d narratives are also agential: while at times they narrate to the expectations of the gaze, they also \u201cplay on\u201d the gaze.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/etn.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2015\/12\/16\/1468796815621938.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat are you?\u201d: Mixed race responses to the racial gaze Ethnicities Published online before print 2015-12-16 DOI: 10.1177\/1468796815621938 Jillian Paragg Department of Sociology University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Mixed race scholarship considers the deployment of the term \u201cmixed race\u201d as an identification and theorizes that the operation of the external racial gaze is signaled through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,125,8,394],"tags":[994,3237],"class_list":["post-47636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-ethnicities","tag-jillian-paragg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47636","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=47636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47637,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47636\/revisions\/47637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}