{"id":6985,"date":"2010-05-04T20:21:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T20:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6985"},"modified":"2012-10-05T00:30:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T00:30:27","slug":"mixed-race-theory-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6985","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-race theory for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/mixedness.millipedia.net\/Default.aspx.LocID-0hgnew0y9.RefLocID-0hg01l0hg01l001.Lang-EN.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed-race theory for everyone<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mixedness &amp; mixing: New perspectives on mixed-race Britons<br \/>\nA Commission for Racial Equality eConference<br \/>\n2007-09-04 through 2007-09-06<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/fes\/wa\/FacultyProfiles\/app\/profile\/1062873\" target=\"_blank\">Jin Haritaworn<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor in Gender, Race and Environment at the Faculty of Environmental Studies<br \/>\n<em>York University, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What insights does mixed-race theory bear for mixed-race people, our allies, and the professionals who work with us? This paper introduces three lessons which are especially relevant in this time and place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lesson 1: Scandalising the &#8216;What are you?&#8217; encounter<br \/>\nLesson 2: The good mix and the bad<br \/>\nLesson 3: A Mongrel Nation?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mixed-race theory helps us challenge the voyeuristic entitlement which some people feel to find out intimate things about us. Many of us are used to giving unreciprocated information about our identities, origins and families. We endure this treatment as we know from experience that the person asking &#8216;Where are you from?&#8217; will not be satisfied with &#8216;Northampton&#8217;. We rarely risk challenging this inappropriate &#8216;smalltalk&#8217;, for fear of being labelled irritating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/mixedness.millipedia.net\/Default.aspx.LocID-0hgnew0y9.RefLocID-0hg01l0hg01l001.Lang-EN.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed-race theory for everyone Mixedness &amp; mixing: New perspectives on mixed-race Britons A Commission for Racial Equality eConference 2007-09-04 through 2007-09-06 Jin Haritaworn, Assistant Professor in Gender, Race and Environment at the Faculty of Environmental Studies York University, Canada What insights does mixed-race theory bear for mixed-race people, our allies, and the professionals who work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,8,14,26,394,10],"tags":[133,12295,12296],"class_list":["post-6985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-papers","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-jin-haritaworn","tag-jinthana-haritaworn","tag-jinthana-k-haritaworn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985","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=6985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}