Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Even if multiracialism shifts us from the “one-drop rule” to a more graduated mestizaje model of racialization, this changes nothing for black people because blackness is still located at the “undesirable” end of the continuum—or, more accurately, hierarchy. In my view, it is necessary that we first understand the stability of that unethical structural relation before we can say that multiracialism challenges racism by injecting into the racist structure a “more fluid” sense of identity. Rainier Spencer’s 2009 Chronicle of Higher Education article, [“Mixed Race Chic”] (Spencer, 2009, May 19), for example, asked, “how can multiracial identity deconstruct race when it needs the system of racial categorization to even announce itself?” Posing this question as a statement would be to say that one needs for there to be a structure of race in order to call oneself multiracial. Small wonder, then, that so many celebrations of multiracial identity sound antiblack. They are…

Omar Ricks, “Playing Games with Race,” The Feminist Wire, June 3, 2011. http://www.thefeministwire.com/2011/06/03/playing-games-with-race/

Laura Kina, visual artist and scholar of Asian-American and Mixed-Race Studies

Posted in Arts, Asian Diaspora, Audio, Media Archive, United States, Women on 2011-09-04 03:10Z by Steven

Laura Kina, visual artist and scholar of Asian-American and Mixed-Race Studies

APA Compass
KBOO FM, Community Radio
Portland, Oregon
2011-09-02

Andrew Yeh, Host

Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies
DePaul University

APA Compass’ Andrew Yeh speaks with artist Laura Kina.

Download to the interview (00:15:50) here.

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