{"id":63931,"date":"2022-06-23T14:37:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T14:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63931"},"modified":"2022-06-23T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T14:37:09","slug":"back-to-race-not-beyond-race-multiraciality-and-racial-identity-in-the-united-states-and-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63931","title":{"rendered":"Back to race, not beyond race: multiraciality and racial identity in the United States and Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s40878-022-00294-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Back to race, not beyond race: multiraciality and racial identity in the United States and Brazil<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comparative Migration Studies<\/a><br \/>\nVolume 10, Article Number 22 (2022)<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s40878-022-00294-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1186\/s40878-022-00294-0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drjasminemitchell.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jasmine Mitchell<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of American Studies and Media<br \/>\n<em>State University of New York-Old Westbury, Old Westbury, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s40878-022-00294-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.springernature.com\/lw450\/springer-cms\/rest\/v1\/content\/17940502\/data\/v1\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In contrast to discourses of multiraciality as leading to a future beyond race, this commentary looks at how multiracial discourses and symbols underline race. Taking an overview of multiracial discourses and identities in relation to Blackness in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brazil<\/a>, this commentary examines the deployment of multiraciality to maintain white supremacy. Under global capitalism, United States multicultural discourses, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_America\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latin American<\/a> foundational narratives, multiracial peoples are often propped up as a solution to racism, the eradication of race, or reduced to racial binaries centering whiteness. The section ends with considerations of how fears of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racial passing<\/a> and fraud coincide with multiracial identities. Questions for further consideration on the nexus of political identities and racial identities are proposed in relation to multiraciality.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article in <a href=\"https:\/\/comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s40878-022-00294-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HTML<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com\/track\/pdf\/10.1186\/s40878-022-00294-0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a> format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking an overview of multiracial discourses and identities in relation to Blackness in the United States and Brazil, this commentary examines the deployment of multiraciality to maintain white supremacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,125,8,6462,26,20],"tags":[33597,29982],"class_list":["post-63931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-politics","category-usa","tag-comparative-migration-studies","tag-jasmine-mitchell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63931","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=63931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63932,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63931\/revisions\/63932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}