Steven F. Riley, curator of mixedracestudies.org, joined us for this discussion of mixed race studies, popular culture and the shifting terrain of race and identity.
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Ralina Joseph and Critical Mixed-Race Studies
We featured our previous interview with Dr. Ralina Joseph this week. Her new book, From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial, offers a strong critique of the standard “tragic mulatto/a” approach to the discussion of “multiracial” people and the anti-Black core of much of the “multiracial [political/social/academic] movement.”
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The Politics of Multiracialism in an Anti-Black World
Dr. Jared Sexton joined us this week to discuss to his work in Amalgamation Schemes and the politics of multiracial identification in an anti-Black world. As Sexton has written, “Multiracialism cuts its teeth on the denial of this fundamental social truth: not simply that antiblackness is longstanding and ongoing but also that it is unlike other…
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