{"id":9439,"date":"2010-10-10T03:18:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T03:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9439"},"modified":"2015-03-16T02:04:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T02:04:48","slug":"multiracial-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9439","title":{"rendered":"Multiracial Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is impossible to evaluate the impact of multiracial politics without attention to historical and social contexts.\u00a0 Without such contexts, it is tempting to conclude, as many have, that the collective efforts of multiracials are inherently progressive, inherently regressive, or even irrelevant.\u00a0 Appearing on the Oprah Winfrey show, for example, a black\/white woman explains to the audience that as a multiracial person she can be a bridge to promote understanding between racial groups.\u00a0 In hearings over changes to racial classification, opponents to the possibility of the state enumerating mixed descent persons invoke the specter of apartheid South Africa, suggesting that new categories will create an escape hatch from blackness.\u00a0 At around the same time, some scholars claim that Asian outmarriage reflects Asian self-hatred and is an attempt to leave behind a stigmatized group.\u00a0 Still others state that the issue is \u201cold news,\u201d not important enough time commenting on it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

DaCosta, Kimberly McClain, Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line<\/em><\/a>, (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2007), 174.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is impossible to evaluate the impact of multiracial politics without attention to historical and social contexts.\u00a0 Without such contexts, it is tempting to conclude, as many have, that the collective efforts of multiracials are inherently progressive, inherently regressive, or even irrelevant.\u00a0 Appearing on the Oprah Winfrey show, for example, a black\/white woman explains to […]<\/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-9439","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\/9439","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=9439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}