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Racemaking in New Orleans: racial boundary construction among ideologically diverse college students / Young, Natalie AE; Gutiérrez Nájera, Lourdes

Young, Natalie AE	Journal Article
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We explore how an ideologically diverse group of white students at Tulane University respond to evidence of racial inequality in post-Katrina New Orleans. In line with prior research, we find commonalities in racialized attitudes and behaviours between students whose racial ideologies otherwise differ. Drawing from anthropological theories of boundary construction and sociological work on colour-blind racism, we argue that the Otherization of non-whites is part of the everyday worldviews and social practices of white Americans. We draw on fieldwork in New Orleans to demonstrate that racist stereotypes and beliefs in racial difference continue to be transmitted within white social spaces. We find that even the most progressive Tulane students are engaged in the construction and reinforcement of symbolic and spatial boundaries between themselves and African Americans. This achieves the purpose for which racial stereotypes were originally constructed – namely, the persistence of racial inequality.

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New Orleans ; Symbolic Boundaries ; Spatial Boundaries ; Rac ; Racemaking ; Colour-Blind Racism

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Your momma is day-glow white: questioning the politics of racial identity, loyalty and obligation / Buggs, Shantel Gabrieal

Buggs, Shantel Gabrieal	Journal Article
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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.

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Racialization ; Auto-ethnography ; Race/Ethnicity ; Mixed-Race ; Colour-Blind Racism ; White Racial Obligation

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