{"id":4954,"date":"2010-08-02T15:14:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T15:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4954"},"modified":"2015-10-01T02:02:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T02:02:51","slug":"a-biracial-identity-or-a-new-race-the-historical-limitations-and-political-implications-of-a-biracial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4954","title":{"rendered":"A Biracial Identity or a New Race? The Historical Limitations and Political Implications of a Biracial Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/ccbh\/souls\/vol3no4\/vol3num4art9.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A Biracial Identity or a New Race? The Historical Limitations and Political Implications of a Biracial Identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/ccbh\/souls\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/ccbh\/souls\/vol3no4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 3,\u00a0Number 4 (Fall 2001)<\/a><br \/>\npages 83-112<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/cola\/depts\/aads\/faculty\/mm64278\" target=\"_blank\">Minkah Makalani<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Texas, Austin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Over the past fifteen years in the United States, there has emerged a concerted push to racially reclassify persons with one Black and one white parent as biracial.\u00a0 Advocates of racial reclassification are calling for the establishment of a biracial identity that is both socially and officially recognized.\u00a0 They are joined by a cohort of scholars, many of whom are themselves biracial identity advocates, who argue that such an identity is more appropriate for persons of mixed parentage than a Black one.\u00a0Social scientist have dominated these discussions, concerned primarily with the experiences and identity of people of mixed parentage.\u00a0They maintain that a biracial identity would better recognized the complete racial background of persons of mixed parentage and offer a more mentally healthy racial identity than a Black racial identity.\u00a0 Moreover, the exalt a biracial identity as a positive step in moving society beyond issues of race and towards the realization of a color-blind society.<\/p>\n<p>Focusing on the scholarship advocating a biracial identity for people with one Black and one white parent, I argue that such an identity has no historical basis, and would have a negative political impact on African Americans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/ccbh\/souls\/vol3no4\/vol3num4art9.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Biracial Identity or a New Race? The Historical Limitations and Political Implications of a Biracial Identity Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society Volume 3,\u00a0Number 4 (Fall 2001) pages 83-112 Minkah Makalani, Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin Over the past fifteen years in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,125,8,26,394,20],"tags":[1994,1995],"class_list":["post-4954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-minkah-makalani","tag-souls-a-critical-journal-of-black-politics-culture-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954","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=4954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43014,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954\/revisions\/43014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}