Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

“The contemporary American fascination with “mixed race” and “biracial” identity is a reflection of changing demographics and globalization; it is also a surrender to and performance of a shallow type of faux cosmopolitanism.

Ironically, the race scientists of Nazi Germany and the United States, as well as the photographer Cyjo (whose work was featured in Slate’s essay) who fetishize and find something “stunning” or “interesting” about “mixed race” and/or “biracial” people (what are fictive identities, social constructs, as there is only one race, the human race) share some common assumptions.

One, that those types of “racial” identities are somehow new or novel. In fact, human history is a story of “miscegenation” and “interracial” intimacy. Two, that those types of bodies and individuals merit study and analysis because there is some connection, either implied or explicitly stated, between genes, color, culture, destiny, and personal, as well as national “character.””

Chauncey DeVega, “‘Stunning Portraits of Mixed Race Families’?: Slate’s Human Zoo of Race Mongrelization,” We Are Respectable Negroes: Happy Non-Threatening Coloured Folks, Even in the Age of Obama, June 25, 2014. http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2014/06/stunning-portraits-of-mixed-race.html.

Miriam Allott Series 2017-18: Sarah Howe, TIDE Writer in Residence with Colm Toibin Fellow, Anthony Joseph

Posted in Articles, Asian Diaspora, Live Events, Media Archive, United Kingdom on 2017-11-05 05:22Z by Steven

Miriam Allott Series 2017-18: Sarah Howe, TIDE Writer in Residence with Colm Toibin Fellow, Anthony Joseph

Travel, Transculturality, and Identity in England, c. 1550-1700 (TIDE)
2017-10-30

Sarah Howe, TIDE Writer in Residence, and TS Eliot Prize-winning author of Loop of Jade will read with University of Liverpool’s Colm Toibin Fellow in Creative Writing, the novelist Anthony Joseph.

Tuesday 14 November 5.30 pm, School of the Arts Library, 19 Abercromby Square.

Funded by the European Research Council and in association with the Centre for New and International Writing at the University of Liverpool.

For more information, click here.

Tags: Anthony Joseph, Sarah Howe, TIDE, Travel Transculturality and Identity in England

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