{"id":53779,"date":"2017-05-04T02:35:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T02:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53779"},"modified":"2017-05-04T19:02:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T19:02:12","slug":"williamss-pregnancy-proves-interracial-couples-still-arent-accepted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53779","title":{"rendered":"Williams\u2019s Pregnancy Proves Interracial Couples Still Aren\u2019t Accepted"},"content":{"rendered":"

Williams\u2019s Pregnancy Proves Interracial Couples Still Aren\u2019t Accepted<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Fortune<\/a>
\n2017-05-03<\/p>\n

Erica Chito Childs<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology
\nHunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nSerena Williams<\/a> arrives at the Costume Institute Benefit May 1, 2017 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> in New York<\/a>.\u00a0ANGELA WEISS\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

When Romanian tennis captain Ilie Nastase<\/a> imagined Serena Willams\u2019s<\/a> baby with her white fianc\u00e9 Alexis Ohanian<\/a> would look like \u201cchocolate with milk<\/a>\u201d last week, his offensive comments were immediately criticized in the media. Williams herself called out his comments as racist<\/a> on Instagram. Days later Nastase apologized, saying, \u201cThat was the first time I had heard about her pregnancy, and my reaction was spontaneous.\u201d<\/p>\n

This feud offered the public a glimpse of how mixed race people around the globe are subject to a variety of similarly insulting terms. Nastase may try to pass off his remark as an isolated incident. But in reality, it reflects the continued widespread opposition to and discomfort with interracial couples and multiracial children.<\/p>\n

On one hand, mixed race celebrities and interracial celebrity couples like Williams and Ohanian are heralded in the media as examples of a world where race, ethnic background, and color no longer matter. This belief in a post-racial world grew louder after the election of President Barack Obama<\/a>, who is biracial. Accompanying these proclamations of multiracialism was the notion that opposition to interracial unions was a thing of the past. In addition, we also hear that interracial marriages are on the rise<\/a> and the biracial population is booming<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yet a closer look at the statistics tells a different story…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nastase may try to pass off his remark as an isolated incident. But in reality, it reflects the continued widespread opposition to and discomfort with interracial couples and multiracial children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,414,8,394,20],"tags":[26937,179,24485,26935,26936],"class_list":["post-53779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-family","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-alexis-ohanian","tag-erica-chito-childs","tag-fortune","tag-ilie-nastase","tag-serena-willams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53779","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=53779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53783,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53779\/revisions\/53783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}