Transcending Blackness in the 21st Century, or How Can I Be Like Barack Obama?Posted in Barack Obama, Communications/Media Studies, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Live Events, Media Archive, Social Science, United States on 2011-04-15 03:56Z by Steven |
Transcending Blackness in the 21st Century, or How Can I Be Like Barack Obama?
Global Studies: A Member of the International Instutute
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Multiracial Tales and Multicultural Discourses
494 Van Hise Hall
2011-04-18, 17:30 CDT (Local Time)
Ralina L. Joseph, Assistant Professor of Communications
University of Washington
As “postrace” is the buzzword of the new century, and Barack Obama has quickly become a poster child of the postrace, the question arises: must multiracial African Americans metaphorically transcend blackness in order to achieve success? This talk will critique the notion that mixed-race black subjects function as bridges offering safe passage to a third, interstitial, or hybridized space. I argue that a two-sided stereotype, comprised in the “new millennium mulatta” and the “exceptional multiracial,” has arisen instead through a variety of mediated discourses.
Ralina Joseph is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Washington. Her forthcoming book from Duke University Press entitled Transcending Blackness: Anti-Black Racism and African American Multiraciality from the New Milennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial investigates 1998-2008 era pop culture representations of multiracial African Americans.
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