WWW.NEWDEMOGRAPHIC.COM The “multiracial look” is hot these days. Celebrities like Jessica Alba, Alicia Keys and Keanu Reeves are all experiencing great popularity, and fashion brands are constantly using racially ambiguous models in their ad campaigns. Is this current fixation with mixed race people entirely positive? When advertisements use multiracial models as metaphors for multiculturalism and tolerance, is that necessarily progressive? In this seminar, Carmen Van Kerckhove explores the ways in which mixed race people are represented and misrepresented in pop culture.

1. Tragic Mulattos and Exotic Temptresses: (Mis)representations of Mixed Race People in the Media

3. Stereotypes Then The Best of Both Worlds

4. Stereotypes Then Exotic Temptress

5. Stereotypes Then Tragic Mulatto

7. Stereotypes Now The Best of Both Worlds It’s Hip to Be Mixed!

8. Generation E.A. : Ethnically Ambiguous

9. Stereotypes Now Exotic Temptress Sex Moves Product

10. Advertisements

11. Stereotypes Now Tragic Mulatto Don’t Date Interracially

12. Sophie Okonedo “ But the full story of Okonedo's battle against the odds to reach international acclaim at 36 has never been told before. She was five when her Nigerian father left her Jewish mother to bring her up on Wembley's Chalkhill Estate. "It was very rough," she says. At school, the half-black, half-Jewish girl faced discrimination from both sides. "I came across as much racism in the Jewish community as I did outside the Jewish community," she says.”

14. Improvements Subverting Stereotypes

15. The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru Symptomatic by Danzy Senna

16. Improvements Telling Our Own Stories

17. Halle Berry, Jennifer Beals

18. Lenny Kravitz, Rain Pryor

19. Indie Media

20. Improvements Mixed Is Normal

21. Verizon’s “The Elliotts” Ad Campaign

23. Be vigilant. Speak out.