{"id":10184,"date":"2010-11-22T03:07:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T03:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10184"},"modified":"2011-01-19T02:49:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T02:49:17","slug":"theorizing-interracial-families-and-hybrid-identity-and-australian-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10184","title":{"rendered":"Theorizing Interracial Families and Hybrid Identity: And Australian Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

Theorizing Interracial Families and Hybrid Identity: And Australian Perspective<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Educational Theory
\nVolume 49, Issue 2<\/a> (June 1999)
\npages 223\u2013249
\nDOI: 10.1111\/j.1741-5446.1999.00223.x<\/a><\/p>\n

Carmen Luke<\/a><\/strong>, Emeritus Professor of Education
\nUniversity of Queensland<\/em><\/p>\n

Allan Luke<\/a><\/strong>, Research Professor
\nQueensland University of Technology<\/em><\/p>\n

This essay is a theoretical exploration at how interracial families are sites for the development and articulation of hybrid identity: complex ways of representing and positioning oneself within larger social constructs of racial, social class, gender, and cultural difference. Our aim here is to examine the significance of place, locality, and situated \u201cracializing practices\u201d in the constitution of\u00a0 identity. We draw on Stuart Hall\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0concepts of \u201cNew Times\u201d and \u201chybridity\u201d to argue that interracial subjects or family formations have always been and continue to be of cultural and political concern in both postcolonial and post-industrial nation states and economies. Our cases and illustrations come from the context of the current public and political debate over immigration and multiculturalism, in Australia, a debate that highlights once again the centrality of \u201crace\u201d in the popular imaginary. Working from postcoloinial and feminist theory, we argue that \u201cbetween two cultures\u201d theorizations, and extant research and social policies on multiculturalism do not adequately account for the hybridity and multiply situated character of several generations of interracial subjects. Throughout we offer comments from interracial families we interviewed. In closing, we turn to more specific narratives of the development of racializmg practices and racial identities in two specific local sites: the cities of Darwin<\/a> and Brisbane<\/a>.\u00a0 We conclude by drawing implications from this study for multicultural and antiracist educational theorizing and practices.<\/p>\n

The Study<\/strong><\/p>\n

This essay draws on interview narratives from the initial phase uf a three year study ot mtciethmc families in Australia, In the first two years of the study (1996-1997), we interviewed couples in 42 visibly mixed-race marriages, where one partner was visibly Caucasian, white Australian and the other was of visibly Indo-Asian background. Because a key focus was on the effects of the visibility of mixed-race families in what historically has been a predominantly white Anglo-European society, we selected cuuples where one member was of visible racial difference. Because we were also concerned with understanding how the development of…<\/p>\n

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Theorizing Interracial Families and Hybrid Identity: And Australian Perspective Educational Theory Volume 49, Issue 2 (June 1999) pages 223\u2013249 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1741-5446.1999.00223.x Carmen Luke, Emeritus Professor of Education University of Queensland Allan Luke, Research Professor Queensland University of Technology This essay is a theoretical exploration at how interracial families are sites for the development and articulation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,8,4405,394],"tags":[4475,986,2557,4476,2966],"class_list":["post-10184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-oceania","category-socialscience","tag-allan-luke","tag-australia","tag-carmen-luke","tag-queensland","tag-stuart-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}