{"id":64354,"date":"2024-03-22T02:17:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T02:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64354"},"modified":"2024-03-22T02:17:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T02:17:15","slug":"2024-critical-mixed-race-studies-association-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64354","title":{"rendered":"2024 Critical Mixed Race Studies Association Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 Critical Mixed Race Studies Association Conference<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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OSU Union<\/a>
\nOhio State University<\/a>
\nColumbus, Ohio
\n2024-06-13 through 2024-06-15<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to the 7th biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference<\/a>, taking place both virtually and in person at The Ohio State University<\/a> (OSU) in the OSU Union<\/a>. We are hosting the conference during the week of Loving Day<\/a>, the anniversary of the June 12, 1967 Loving v. Virginia<\/em> U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down remaining laws banning interracial marriage. The conference will also concurrently take place during Columbus, Ohio\u2019s<\/a> Pride weekend. In this spirit, we can mobilize love as an act of radical resistance against white supremacy and forms of intersectional oppression. Within the structure of white supremacy, people identified or identifying as multiracial or mixed have often been placed in \u201climinal spaces,\u201d or forced to navigate between two or more worlds, identities, and places that are at times conflicting. It is for this reason that we center the idea of liminality<\/a> or \u201cbetwixt and between,\u201d as a productive space from which to form solidarities and foster a \u201cbeloved community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Within Critical Mixed Race Studies<\/a>, \u201cbetwixt and between\u201d holds meaning as the title of the longest running college course on multiracial identity, taught by the late G. Reginald Daniel<\/a> (aka \u201cReg\u201d), Professor of Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara<\/a>. The idea of multiracial people living \u201cbetwixt and between\u201d was also debated in his groundbreaking text, More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order<\/em><\/a>. While we wish to elevate and honor Reg\u2019s life and scholarship by centering liminality, the framing can also be limiting. Therefore, we invite expansive thinking around questions of \u201cbetwixt and between\u201d toward liberating our emerging field of study. We suggest this liberation could happen through solidarity and in or through beloved community. Borrowing from the late bell hooks in Killing Rage: Ending Racism, the \u201ctransformative power of love\u201d can be wielded to cultivate cross-racial solidarities amongst ourselves as \u201cbeloved community [which] is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world. To form beloved community we do not surrender ties to precious origins. We deepen those bondings by connecting them with an anti-racist struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information and to register, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the 7th biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, taking place both virtually and in person at The Ohio State University (OSU) in the OSU Union. We are hosting the conference during the week of Loving Day, the anniversary of the June 12, 1967 Loving v. Virginia U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down remaining laws banning interracial marriage. The conference will also concurrently take place during Columbus, Ohio\u2019s Pride weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,16,33,4,125,13,394,20],"tags":[142,33821],"class_list":["post-64354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-asia","category-census","category-upcoming-media","category-identitydevelopment","category-liveevents","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-g-reginald-daniel","tag-osu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64354","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=64354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64355,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64354\/revisions\/64355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}