{"id":50479,"date":"2016-12-08T02:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T02:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50479"},"modified":"2016-12-08T02:30:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T02:30:32","slug":"us-versus-them-a-thought-on-the-complexities-of-multiracial-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50479","title":{"rendered":"\u201cUs versus Them\u201d \u2013 A Thought on the Complexities of Multiracial Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/multiracialmedia.com\/2016\/12\/08\/us-versus-thought-complexities-multiracial-passing\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u201cUs versus Them\u201d \u2013 A Thought on the Complexities of Multiracial Passing<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/multiracialmedia.com\" target=\"_blank\">Multiracial Media: Voice of the Multiracial Community<\/a><br \/>\n2016-12-08<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joannalt.88\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Joanna L. Thompson<\/strong><\/a>, Ph.D. Candidate<br \/>\nDepartment of Criminology, Law, and Justice<br \/>\n<em>University of Illinois, Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/multiracialmedia.com\/2016\/12\/08\/us-versus-thought-complexities-multiracial-passing\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/multiracialmedia.com\/stagin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-8.46.04-PM.png\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Is this an example of \u201cMultiracial Passing?\u201d <em>Photo credit: YouTube<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Recently, a post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50457\" target=\"_blank\"><em>TheRoot.com<\/em> discussed the challenges<\/a> Sofia Richie, daughter of iconic singer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lionel_Richie\" target=\"_blank\">Lionel Richie<\/a>, faces in the fashion industry. As a mixed-race, half Black\/half White individual, Richie presents more White than Black. Because Richie presents more White than Black due to her light-skinned complexion, she mentioned in the interview that many White people who work around her feel comfortable saying racist things because ultimately, they forget or do not even know she is also Black. In a world that is growing more multiracial each day, the topic of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a> is more prevalent than ever. The topic also raises questions which have yet to be answered. How do light-skinned multiracial individuals handle the racism that exists around them, whether it is directly or indirectly intended at them? And how can people who are not mixed-race do better at not only decreasing their racist remarks, but respecting spaces where the presence of light-skinned multiracial individuals are high?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/multiracialmedia.com\/2016\/12\/08\/us-versus-thought-complexities-multiracial-passing\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUs versus Them\u201d \u2013 A Thought on the Complexities of Multiracial Passing Multiracial Media: Voice of the Multiracial Community 2016-12-08 Joanna L. Thompson, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice University of Illinois, Chicago Is this an example of \u201cMultiracial Passing?\u201d Photo credit: YouTube Recently, a post on TheRoot.com discussed the challenges Sofia Richie, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,6462,20],"tags":[25355,25356,25357,25655,25649],"class_list":["post-50479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-joanna-l-thompson","tag-joanna-thompson","tag-multiracial-media","tag-multiracial-media-voice-of-the-multiracial-community","tag-sofia-richie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50479","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=50479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50481,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50479\/revisions\/50481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}