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Social Movements, the Rise of Colorblind Conservativism, and What Comes Naturally

Social Movements, the Rise of Colorblind Conservativism, and What Comes Naturally Social Movements, the Rise of Colorblind Conservativism, and What Comes Naturally matt garcia eugene, oregon: april 2009 Last spring I spoke at a University of Oregon symposium commemorating the twenty-fi fth anniversary of the publication of Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States. Emerging from the presen- tations was equal admiration for another book, Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally. In the presentation “Challenges to the Social Constructionist View of Race in the Post-Genomic Era,” for example, sociologist Catherine Lee used Pascoe’s work to explain how the social constructionist view of race had evolved and how the emergence of interracial relations and multiracial children had stoked research on the origins of race among biologists. Others talked about the importance of Pascoe’s just-released book, and Pascoe’s pres- ence at most of the sessions and receptions infl uenced the discussions that shaped the weekend. It might be easy to attribute this appreciation of Pascoe to the fact that we were on a campus that has long benefi ted from her wisdom as Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacifi c History and professor of eth- nic studies, though I think the praise from reviewers and the many awards that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies University of Nebraska Press

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Social Movements, the Rise of Colorblind Conservativism, and What Comes Naturally matt garcia eugene, oregon: april 2009 Last spring I spoke at a University of Oregon symposium commemorating the twenty-fi fth anniversary of the publication of Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States. Emerging from the presen- tations was equal admiration for another book, Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally. In the presentation “Challenges to the Social Constructionist View of Race in the Post-Genomic Era,” for example, sociologist Catherine Lee used Pascoe’s work to explain how the social constructionist view of race had evolved and how the emergence of interracial relations and multiracial children had stoked research on the origins of race among biologists. Others talked about the importance of Pascoe’s just-released book, and Pascoe’s pres- ence at most of the sessions and receptions infl uenced the discussions that shaped the weekend. It might be easy to attribute this appreciation of Pascoe to the fact that we were on a campus that has long benefi ted from her wisdom as Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacifi c History and professor of eth- nic studies, though I think the praise from reviewers and the many awards that

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