{"id":7345,"date":"2010-09-26T00:10:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T00:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7345"},"modified":"2014-01-20T07:11:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T07:11:08","slug":"passing-and-performance-in-the-21st-century-black-white-biracial-americans-and-passing-as-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7345","title":{"rendered":"Passing and Performance in the 21st Century: Black-White Biracial Americans and Passing as Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/meta\/p406298_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Passing and Performance in the 21st Century: Black-White Biracial Americans and Passing as Black<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asanet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Sociological Association<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asanet.org\/meetings\/10Program.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Annual Meeting 2010<\/a><br \/>\nRegular Session: <a href=\"http:\/\/convention2.allacademic.com\/one\/asa\/asa10\/index.php?click_key=2&amp;cmd=Multi+Search+Search+Load+Session&amp;session_id=109672&amp;PHPSESSID=42df11d096fd237a8760c1984636601f\" target=\"_blank\">Multi-Racial Classification\/Identity<\/a><br \/>\nAtlanta Marriott Marquis<br \/>\nMonday, 2010-08-16, 16:30-18:10 EDT (Local Time)<br \/>\n35 pages<\/p>\n<p>Session Organizer: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.nuim.ie\/PublicationsRebeccaKingORiain.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca C. King-O\u2019Riain<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Lecturer of Sociology, <em>National University of Ireland-Maynooth<\/em>\u00a0<br \/>\nPresider: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.umn.edu\/people\/liebler_c.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carolyn A. Liebler<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology, <em>University of Minnesota<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/sociology\/temp\/styled-5\/styled-59\/styled-43\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nikki Khanna Sherwin<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Vermont<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asanet.org\/meetings\/2010Home.cfm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asanet.org\/images\/meetings\/images\/2010AM-Web-Tag-w-o-ASA-logo.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drawing on interview data with black-white biracial adults, I examine the considerable agency most have in asserting their racial identities to others. Extending research on \u201cidentity work,\u201d I explore the strategies they use to perform race, and the individual and structural-level factors that limit the accessibility and\/or effectiveness of some strategies. I further find that how these biracial respondents identify is often contextual \u2013 most identify as biracial, but in some contexts, they \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">pass<\/a>\u201d as monoracial. Scholars argue that \u201cpassing\u201d may be a relic of the past, yet I find that \u201cpassing\u201d still occurs today and quite frequently. Most notably, I find a striking reverse pattern of \u201cpassing\u201d today \u2013 while \u201cpassing\u201d during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Crow era<\/a> involved \u201cpassing\u201d as white, I find that these respondents more often report \u201cpassing\u201d as black today. Motivations for \u201cpassing\u201d are explored, with an emphasis on \u201cpassing\u201d as black.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/meta\/p406298_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passing and Performance in the 21st Century: Black-White Biracial Americans and Passing as Black American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2010 Regular Session: Multi-Racial Classification\/Identity Atlanta Marriott Marquis Monday, 2010-08-16, 16:30-18:10 EDT (Local Time) 35 pages Session Organizer: Rebecca C. King-O\u2019Riain, Senior Lecturer of Sociology, National University of Ireland-Maynooth\u00a0 Presider: Carolyn A. 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