{"id":49375,"date":"2016-10-09T23:58:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T23:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49375"},"modified":"2016-10-09T23:58:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T23:58:40","slug":"americas-obsession-with-multiracial-beauty-reveals-our-ongoing-bias-against-blackness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49375","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s obsession with multiracial beauty reveals our ongoing bias against blackness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/801979\/biracial-beauty-myth-americas-obsession-with-multiracial-beauty-reveals-our-ongoing-bias-against-blackness\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>America\u2019s obsession with multiracial beauty reveals our ongoing bias against blackness<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\" target=\"_blank\">Quartz<\/a><br \/>\n2016-10-06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlreece.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Robert L. Reece<\/strong><\/a>, Ph.D. Candidate<br \/>\n<em>Duke University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last month, rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kanye_West\" target=\"_blank\">Kanye West<\/a> posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2016\/09\/kanye-west-multi-racial-casting-call-backlash\" target=\"_blank\">a controversial casting call<\/a> for his clothing line, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kanye_West#Fashion\" target=\"_blank\">Yeezy<\/a>, mandating \u201cmultiracial women only.\u201d Many objected, arguing that West had insulted darker-skinned black women.<\/p>\n<p>But Kanye was only adhering to something fairly common in a society that still operates under a racial hierarchy: the belief that multiracial people are more attractive\u2014what sociologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/~jsims\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Sims<\/a> has termed the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=25000\" target=\"_blank\">biracial beauty stereotype<\/a>.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/801979\/biracial-beauty-myth-americas-obsession-with-multiracial-beauty-reveals-our-ongoing-bias-against-blackness\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s obsession with multiracial beauty reveals our ongoing bias against blackness Quartz 2016-10-06 Robert L. Reece, Ph.D. Candidate Duke University Last month, rapper Kanye West posted a controversial casting call for his clothing line, Yeezy, mandating \u201cmultiracial women only.\u201d Many objected, arguing that West had insulted darker-skinned black women. But Kanye was only adhering to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8,394,20],"tags":[6522,6521,6523,25170,19497,24732,15062],"class_list":["post-49375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-jennifer-p-sims","tag-jennifer-patrice-sims","tag-jennifer-sims","tag-kanye-west","tag-quartz","tag-robert-l-reece","tag-robert-reece"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49375","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=49375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49376,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49375\/revisions\/49376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}