Multiracial ideology, like the monoracial ideology it depends on, is a false consciousness.Posted in Excerpts/Quotes on 2009-06-14 02:07Z by Steven |
Multiracial ideology, like the monoracial ideology it depends on, is a false consciousness. The frustration its adherents feel would be better directed at criticizing the American racial paradigm itself rather than at attempting to modify the paradigm’s configuration. A modified paradigm, one containing a multi-racial category, would be a fallacious as one without a multiracial category. As long as the idea of race has legitimacy, and as long as the racial hierarchy remains undisturbed, nothing will really change.
Rainier Spencer, Mixed Race Studies: A Reader, Chapter 29.