Jasmeet Dhillon
ASA 15
Week 6
For week 6, I
will be blogging about “The Current State of Multiracial Discourse” by Molly
Littlewood McKibbin. This article mainly focused on the issues of multiracial
identity/culturalism today in respects to politics and scholarship. This paper
brought up a term called, ‘mixed race racial theory” as a way to describe the
problems happening today within multiracial groups. There are many different
levels/ages trying to navigate this theory because it starts from the history
of the nineteenth century. It goes in depth about how congress and scholars are
trying to make multiracial groups as a secluded form and how they believe that
social support or legal protection for multiracial individuals will result in a
“color-blind” society.
The author also states,
“Some monoracialists accuse multiracial “race traitors” of being anti-black and
abandoning blackness for the benefits of whiteness.” We talked a lot about this
statement/idea in class. One aspect that I found the most interesting was how it
mentioned that racial identity is linked to phenotype and history but multiraciality
does not have either qualities. This makes it confusing for individuals because
multiraciality possesses such ambiguity. This makes it difficult to form groups
they believe they belong in.
By the end of
the article, I just think that being mixed should not be examined in this type
of way. Being mixed should not be looked down upon as if it is a disease or a bad thing. It should be something that is celebrated.
My question for this week, Is society angered by this? or is this how society also views it and wants congress to step in?
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