Kaining Huang ASA 115 Week 6 reading blog

This week's reading covers: "Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies", " The Current State of Multiracial Discourse", "'Only the News They Wanted to Print:' " Mainstream Media and  Critical Mixed-Race Studies", " Radical Love:  A Transatlantic Dialogue about Race and Mixed Race", " Lebanon in Two Hemisphere: Posts from a Post-Colonial World". This week's reading connects to the theme of "New Frontiers in Mixed Race Studies". One of the reading "The Current State of Multiracial Discourse" remind me that classification in the society, which often arouse sensitiveness of multiple racial people, correlates closely to the political classification of group and identity. When I took ASA 001, and CHI 10 at UC Davis, the first discussion sessions are all about the importance of identification.  The attention paid to identification reflects that politically, to classifying identities of races has great meaning in our society. As a mono-racial person, I may never understand how mixed race people feel when they are asked to identify themselves. Nevertheless, according to the reading, compared with other communities, mixed race communities are more difficult to defend their social status and thus hard to proceed movement. The result of such difficulties is that mixed race people are classified into a part of hierarchy system and the system is structured toughly.

Here is a video presenting the feeling of students who are of mixed race in American campus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21H9lA6MLHM, we can see that being around of their own identities is the best method of overcoming people's discrimination.