SOCIAL CLASS

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BLACK WHITE?
Presented by Amber Kyle
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Celebrity Couples
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Robert Di Nero
Grace Hightower
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Ice T Coco
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Taye Diggs Idina Menzel
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George Lucas Melody Hobson
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Multiracial BABIES
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Cuba Gooding Jr Daughter
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Halle Berry Daughter
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Tiger Elin Woods with son Charlie
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Heidi Klum Seal with son
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Terrence Howard and Kids
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Alicia Keys Mom
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THE FACE OF MIXEDNESS
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THE FACE OF MIXEDNESS
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Miscegenation Pronunciation \()mi-se-j?-na-sh?n,
mi-si-j?-na-\ Function noun Etymology
irregular from Latin miscere to mix genus
race The mixing of different racial groups,
that is, marrying, cohabiting, having sexual
relations and having children with a partner from
outside of one's racially or ethnically defined
group.
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• Miscegenation Cases
• Kirby V. Kirby (1922)
• Estate of Monks (1941)
• Perez V. Lippold (1948)
• Loving V. Virginia (1967)
• Significance is that these cases demonstrated the
  idea of racial grouping and prohibited mixed race
  or interracial marriage thus making mix-raced
  children socially unacceptable.

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TRAGIC MULATTA Historic Perspective on
Children of Interracial relationships The
trope of the tragic mulatto places on the
mixed-race subject, rather than on society, the
responsibility for any disconnectedness,
displacement, alienation, and lack of belonging
he or she might experience in a social context
that widely subscribes to deleterious dualism
(Pabst, p.196)
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Imitation of Life (1959) Sara Jane gets a
boyfriend
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Many Americans continue to find interracial
relationships deeply troubling. (Pabst, p. 190)
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However, Statistics show a hopeful view of
approval surrounding interracial
relationships. Percentage Approving of
Interracial Dating, by Age Gallup Poll,
2005
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Approval of interracial dating by
race. Gallup Poll, 2005
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Black and White U.S. Census Classification One
Chosen by Census Taker 1890 White, Black,
Mulatto, Quadroon, Octoroon 1920 White,
Negro-Black, Negro-Mulatto 1930-1950 White,
Negro One Chosen by Respondent 1970 White,
Negro/Black 1990 White, Black 2000 ONE OR
MORE CHOSEN BY RESPONDENT
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MULTIRACIAL IDENTIFICATION BY STATE

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Critique of the 2000 Census Looking at the
Caribbean and South Africa, it becomes equally
clear that formalizing a hierarchical tier for
mulattoes, half-castes, coloreds, or grays
does nothing whatsoever to undermine dichotomous
systems of domination, whether ideological or
institutional. (Pabst, p.203)
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Naomi Zacks argument for the 2000 Census If
individuals or mixed race are granted a separate
racial identity, then all the myths of racial
purity and stability breakdown because there is
then such a large universe of possible races that
the historical contingency of any groups racial
identity becomes transparent. (Pabst, p. 202)
Maria Root argues Opening a dialogue about a
multiracial category for federal and state
government racial classification may be a way of
dismantling racial construction as we know it.
(Pabst, p. 202)
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Modern day one drop paradox
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AUTHENTICITY Despite being able to be socially
identify as Multiracial or not there will always
be displacement of mix-raced children. In
spite of rumors regarding the infinite privileges
open to those of us with visible white ancestry,
there is always, yes always, a great deal of pain
that comes with this privilege. Our sufferings
as Black people of different shades are not
identical, and they arent even always equal, but
they most certainly are mutual. And because my
experience of racism as it is felt through this
light skinned body is not the same as that
experience which is felt through darker colored
flesh does not mean that either of the two is any
truer, more valid or authentic. Kristal Brent
Zook
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• Colorism The hierarchy of skin color black,
  brown, dark-skinned, light-skinned has long
  been a source of division within African American
  communities. (npr,2007)
• Acts of Colorism
• Brown Paper Bag Pencil test
• Adrian Piper, Kristal Zook Habari Njeri

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• Fetishism and commoditization with
• multiracialism?
• CHILDREN
• ACTORS
• MUSIC ARTIST

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But Everyone should remember