{"id":9945,"date":"2010-11-09T00:26:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T00:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9945"},"modified":"2015-10-29T17:51:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T17:51:41","slug":"beyond-color-blind-universalism-asians-in-a-%e2%80%9cpostracial-america%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9945","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Color-blind Universalism: Asians in a \u201cPostracial America\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_asian_american_studies\/summary\/v013\/13.3.vo.html\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond Color-blind Universalism: Asians in a \u201cPostracial America\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_asian_american_studies\/toc\/jaas.13.3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Asian American Studies<br \/>\nVolume 13, Number 3<\/a> (October 2010)<br \/>\npages 327-342<br \/>\nE-ISSN: 1096-8598; Print ISSN: 1097-2129<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faculty.uci.edu\/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4876\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Trinh V\u00f5<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor<br \/>\nDepartment of Asian American Studies School of Humanities<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Irvine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Beyond the symbolism of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Hussein Obama\u2019s<\/a> election is the unseen ways in which it is transforming the racial discourse in this country; however, whether it means a substantial transformation of structural inequities is more elusive. Does Obama\u2019s election mean that the United States has moved beyond its historical legacy of slavery and institutionalized segregation? <strong>Are racial groups interchangeable in this colorblind universalism, so that one group can be merely substituted for another?<\/strong> We are in the process of digesting what his presidency means for Asian Americans on both a superficial or symbolic level, but also on the tangibles, namely the implementation of the campaign slogan \u201cchange we can believe in.\u201d Recognizing that much remains uncertain for Asian Americans, I critique the connections, real and imagined, they have to the presidential election, provide cautionary notes on the post-racial narrative, and comment on the ongoing process and impact of racialization.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_asian_american_studies\/v013\/13.3.vo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond Color-blind Universalism: Asians in a \u201cPostracial America\u201d Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 13, Number 3 (October 2010) pages 327-342 E-ISSN: 1096-8598; Print ISSN: 1097-2129 Linda Trinh V\u00f5, Associate Professor Department of Asian American Studies School of Humanities University of California, Irvine Beyond the symbolism of President Barack Hussein Obama\u2019s election is the unseen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,63,8,394,20],"tags":[2682,4346],"class_list":["post-9945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-journal-of-asian-american-studies","tag-linda-trinh-vo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945","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=9945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43574,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions\/43574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}