ABSTRACT
People have entered the age of the Ethnically Ambiguous, an era that seems to be primarily characterized by the currency and marketability of mixed race beauty as the New York Times declared over ten years ago. In this context, the celebration and promotion of artist CYJO's series of photographs of mixed race families in the Slate article "Stunning Portraits of Mixed Race Families" and in the Huffington Post was not entirely surprising. Drawing from the images edited and showcased by Slate and from Mixed Blood, the larger project from which these pictures were chosen, the author set both collections in conversation with another visual culture project, the crowdsourced Tumblr blog We Are the 15". The historical roots of photographic images of mixed race people in eugenicist projects, which incited a will to know and fix race through visual scrutiny, taints the project of visualizing mixed race.
