{"id":61010,"date":"2021-06-30T02:41:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T02:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61010"},"modified":"2021-06-30T02:41:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T02:41:55","slug":"policing-cardi-bs-blackness-a-critical-analysis-of-commonsense-notions-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61010","title":{"rendered":"Policing Cardi B\u2019s Blackness: A Critical Analysis of \u201cCommonsense\u201d Notions of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Policing Cardi B\u2019s Blackness: A Critical Analysis of \u201cCommonsense\u201d Notions of Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Black Latinx Studies<\/a>
\n2019-06-15<\/p>\n

Shantee Rosado<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Afro-Latinx Studies
\nRutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick.<\/em><\/p>\n

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When Cardi B<\/a> entered the Hip Hop<\/a> landscape during Love & Hip Hop: New York<\/em>, the world seemed more entertained by her loud, humorous persona than her music. So, it didn\u2019t surprise me that her emergence as a Hip Hop tour de force<\/em> was met with some skepticism. Cardi B, born Belcalis Marlenis Almanzar, is a Bronx<\/a>-born and raised Hip Hop phenom. If you haven\u2019t heard of her by now, I\u2019d like an escape to the deserted island you\u2019ve been living on, por favor<\/em><\/a>. Cardi is known for many things these days: for her tenuous relationship with fellow hip hop artist Offset<\/a>, from Migos<\/a>, for her very public pregnancy and recent birth of baby girl Kulture; and for her awkward, yet hilarious, interviews with late night figures like Jimmy Fallon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite her obvious appeal to listeners, Cardi\u2019s rise to fame was also met with some ridicule and suspicion, as critics took to Twitter to debate her legitimacy as an artist and her appearance as a \u201cracially ambiguous\u201d woman. Public concerns over Cardi\u2019s Blackness are obvious from just a quick Google search. Existing articles include a blog post on Blavity<\/em><\/a>, published last fall, titled \u201cPeople want to know if Cardi B is Black, but for Afro-Caribbeans, things are not Black and White.\u201d Another article<\/a>, published on fuse<\/a> early last year, is titled \u201cYes, Cardi B is Black and proud of it: Why the rapper\u2019s Afro-Latina heritage shouldn\u2019t be erased<\/a>.\u201d Tapping into similar concerns, a YouTube video<\/a> published by The Talko<\/em> and titled \u201c20 things you didn\u2019t know about Cardi B,\u201d uses the first item on their list to \u201cclear up\u201d rumors regarding Cardi\u2019s ethnic background. The video \u201cclarifies\u201d that her parents are Dominican and Trinidadian, but that Cardi was born and raised in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

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

I argue that these concerns about Cardi B\u2019s Blackness elucidate broader conflicting racial views across the African Diaspora, as well as particular concerns about race in a U.S. context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,14646,8,20],"tags":[31567,31570,31568,2540,1392,31569],"class_list":["post-61010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-belcalis-marlenis-almanzar","tag-black-latinx-studies","tag-cardi-b","tag-hip-hop","tag-music","tag-shantee-rosado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61010","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=61010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61012,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61010\/revisions\/61012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}