{"id":9430,"date":"2013-03-18T15:03:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T15:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9430"},"modified":"2016-01-13T22:53:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T22:53:19","slug":"racial-identity-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9430","title":{"rendered":"The irony here is that while the discourse of choice in racial identification suggests we as individuals are determining for ourselves who we want to be, in fact we are \u201cchoosing\u201d within a given set of epistemological, social, and political conditions that make only certain choices possible."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Similarly, the idea that racial identity can be freely chosen appeals to the high value Americans place on individualism.\u00a0 The novelty of a mixed racial identity makes one stand out against dominant modes of identification.\u00a0At the same time, the elaboration of sense of a multiracial group identity makes one feel as if one belongs to a community where one is, if only in one\u2019s perceived marginality, just like everyone else.\u00a0 The irony here is that while the discourse of choice in racial identification suggests we as individuals are determining for ourselves who we want to be, in fact we are \u201cchoosing\u201d within a given set of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Epistemology\" target=\"_blank\">epistemological<\/a>, social, and political conditions that make only certain choices possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>DaCosta, Kimberly McClain, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=2623\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line<\/em><\/a>, (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2007), 179.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Similarly, the idea that racial identity can be freely chosen appeals to the high value Americans place on individualism.\u00a0 The novelty of a mixed racial identity makes one stand out against dominant modes of identification.\u00a0At the same time, the elaboration of sense of a multiracial group identity makes one feel as if one belongs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4084,181],"class_list":["post-9430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-kimberly-dacosta","tag-kimberly-mcclain-dacosta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9430","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=9430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43373,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9430\/revisions\/43373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}