The Table Setting as Medium: Lived Curriculum and Mixed-Race Identity

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Acknowledgment

I express gratitude to my former student, Cara “Marynn” Robinson, for allowing me to share an aspect of her personal story and artwork for this article. She is currently the visual arts teacher at Moore County High School in Lynchburg, Tennessee.

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1 Anti-miscegenation laws reinforced these interracial taboos by prohibiting interracial unions (marriages) and were upheld by 16 U.S. states prior to 1967 (National Constitution Center, 2019). It was in this year that the U.S. Supreme Court made its landmark decision in the case of Loving v. Virginia to strike down laws banning interracial marriages. Despite this ruling, many states (including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Virginia) continued to enforce anti-miscegenation statutes.

2 See Cross (2004), Erikson (1968), Marcia, Waterman, Matteson, Archer, and Orlofsky (1993), and Root (1996).

3 A useful example of this can be seen in the U.S. television series, Mixed-ish, which made its debut in September 2019. This series chronicles the early experiences of Rainbow Johnson (main character) as she recounts her dilemmas growing up as a biracial child (Black–White parentage) in the 1980s.

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Gloria J. Wilson

Gloria J. Wilson, Assistant Professor, Art and Visual Culture Education, University of Arizona in Tucson. Email: [email protected]. Website: https://gloriajwilson.com