Ethics of Racial IdentityPosted in Literary/Artistic Criticism, Live Events, New Media, United States on 2010-06-21 17:47Z by Steven |
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
108th Annual Conference
2010-11-13 through 2010-11-14
Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii
Presiding Officer: Adebe DeRango-Adem, York University
Barack Obama benefited from the spirit of tolerance that defined Hawaii’s racial climate. This special session envisions a mixed-race literature in the age of Obama that forwards not solely theorizations of what mixed race identities are, but an ethics for treating mixed race identification in literature. It is designed to re-situate mixedness/interraciality within the field of literary inquiry as a question of the ethical treatment of racialized figures.