Still the tragic mulatto? Manufacturing multiracialization in magazine media, 1961-2011

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2147698
AutoresSheena K Gardner (0000-0001-5694-8616, Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University, Starkville, USA), Sheena Gardner (0000-0003-1924-5270, Mississippi State University, autor de correspondencia), M W Hughey (0000-0002-6456-5663, University of Connecticut)
Año2019
Volumen42
Número4
Páginas645-665
Fecha de publicación2019-03-12
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2017.1380212
OpenAlexW2761701745
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas51

On the heels of the 2000 US Census allowance of multiracial categorization and with rising mainstream discussion of multiracial heritage, questions over the meanings of multiracialism are quite prevalent. Scholars have highlighted how mainstream-oriented and black-oriented media structure (multi)racial conflicts, concepts, and categories. However, sociological analysis has neither examined qualitative differences and nuance among multiracial-oriented media sources nor specified the precise qualitative themes, frames, and discourse of that representation across time and media format. A content analysis of mainstream-, black-, and multiracial-oriented magazine articles demonstrates how varied media sources differently drew upon, resisted, and reproduced distinct understandings of multiracialism to reproduce the dominance of the "Tragic Mulatto" trope. The implications for this study illuminate the import of multiracial self-esteem, the intersection of conservative political movements and black interest groups in the fight for and against a multiracial movement, and the paradoxical role of anti-black stereotypes in multiracial representations

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