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Blaxican Identity: An Exploratory Study Of Blacks/Chicanas/Os In California, Rebecca Romo
Blaxican Identity: An Exploratory Study Of Blacks/Chicanas/Os In California, Rebecca Romo
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
Abstract:
This paper explores the racial/ethnic identities of multiracial Black-Mexicans or ‘Blaxicans.’ In- depth interviews with 12 Blaxican individuals in California reveal how they negotiate distinct cultural systems to accomplish multiracial identities. I argue that choosing, accomplishing, and asserting a Blaxican identity challenges the dominant monoracial discourse in the United States, in particular among African American and Chicana/o communities. That is, Blaxican respondents are held accountable by African Americans and Chicanas/os/Mexicans to monoracial notions of ‘authenticity.’ The process whereby Blaxicans move between these monoracial spaces to create multiracial identities illustrates crucial aspects of the social construction of race/ethnicity in the …
Cry Of Color, April 1970, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications
Cry Of Color, April 1970, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications
Cry of Color
Volume 1, No. 1
Subtitle: third world supplement