'Your momma is day-glow white': questioning the politics of racial identity, loyalty and obligation

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 ess...

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Published in:Identities (Yverdon, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2017-07, Vol.24 (4), p.379-397
Main Author: Buggs, Shantel Gabrieal
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Auto-ethnography
Autoethnography
colour-blind racism
Discourse analysis
Ethnicity
Ethnography
Families & family life
Friendship
Group identity
Identity politics
Loyalty
mixed-race
Multiracial people
Networking
Obligations
Politics
Race
race/ethnicity
Racial identity
racialization
Relatives
Social networks
white racial obligation
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1070-289X
1547-3384
DOI:10.1080/1070289X.2016.1150282