Multiraciality Is As Old As This Country: Gender, Sexuality & Race Mixing with Professor Renee Romano

Multiraciality Is As Old As This Country: Gender, Sexuality & Race Mixing with Professor Renee Romano

Blogtalk Radio
2012-02-10

Michelle McCrary, Host
Is That Your Child?

Renee Romano, Associate Professor of History
Oberlin College

Last Friday ITYC had an enlightening conversation with Professor Renee Romano from Oberlin College about the ways in which our country’s historical memory about race has served to advance the political interests of institutional whiteness. She noted the erasure of our country’s long history of “race mixing” in all of its complexity as one of the casualties of a national racial memory that seeks to minimize and obfuscate the contributions of people of color to the formation of the United States.

We also talked about how black/white interracial couples tackle issues of white privilege as well as her own personal story about how she negotiates issues of race in her own marriage.

Download the episode here (01:08:19).

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