| ID | 153675 |
| Title Proper | Your momma is day-glow white |
| Other Title Information | questioning the politics of racial identity, loyalty and obligation |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Buggs, Shantel Gabrieal |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article utilizes discourse analysis and an auto-ethnographic approach to explore the impact of US racial and ethnic categorization on the experiences of an individual marked as ‘mixed-race’ in terms of individual identity and familial/cultural group loyalty and obligation(s). This essay focuses on an incidence of public policing through the popular social networking platform Facebook, centring on the invocation of racial obligation by white friends and family members. I analyse how racial loyalty is articulated by friends and family members in their posts on my personal Facebook page and how this ‘loyalty’ is used as means of regulating my mixed-race identity performance. This essay aims to understand several things, namely how identity is mediated through the invocation of racial obligation and how tension around identity plays out in the multiracial family. |
| `In' analytical Note | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Vol. 24, No.4; Aug 2017: p.379-397 |
| Journal Source | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 2017-08 24, 4 |
| Key Words | Racialization ; Auto-ethnography ; Race/Ethnicity ; Mixed-Race ; Colour-Blind Racism ; White Racial Obligation |