{"id":12868,"date":"2011-03-25T21:37:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T21:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12868"},"modified":"2016-10-24T19:34:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T19:34:49","slug":"as-we-are-now-mixblood-essays-on-race-and-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12868","title":{"rendered":"As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of California Press<\/a>
\nJanuary 1998
\n282 pages
\nPaperback ISBN: 9780520210738<\/p>\n

edited by<\/p>\n

William S. Penn<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Creative Writing
\nMichigan State University<\/em><\/p>\n

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The thirteen contributors to As We Are Now<\/em> invite readers to explore with them the untamed territory of race and mixblood identity in North America. A “mixblood,” according to editor W.S. Penn, recognizes that his or her identity comes not from distinct and separable strains of ancestry but from the sum of the tension and interplay of all his or her ancestral relationships. These first-person narratives cross racial, national, and disciplinary boundaries in a refreshingly experimental approach to writing culture. Their authors call on similar but varied cultural and aesthetic traditions\u2014mostly oral\u2014in order to address some aspect of race and identity about which they feel passionate, and all resist the essentialist point of view. Mixblood Native American, Mestizo\/a, and African-American writers focus their discussion on the questions indigenous and minority people ask and the way in which they ask them, clearly merging the singular “I” with the communal “we.” These are new voices in the dialogue of ethnic writers, and they offer a highly original treatment of an important subject.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/em>
\nWilliam S. Penn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cutting and Pinning Patterns
\nErika Aigner-Varoz<\/strong><\/p>\n

Howling at the Moon: The Queer but True Story of My Life as a Hank Williams Song
\nCraig Womack<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crossing Borders from the Beginning
\nAlfonso Rodriguez<\/strong><\/p>\n

Knots
\nCarol Kalafatic<\/strong><\/p>\n

What Part Moon
\nInez Petersen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tradition and the Individual Imitation
\nWilliam S. Penn<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Mapping and Urban Shamans
\nKimberly Blaeser<\/strong><\/p>\n

Race and Mixed-Race: A Personal Tour
\nRainier Spencer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Visions in the Four Directions: Five Hundred Years of Resistance and Beyond
\nArturo Aldama<\/strong><\/p>\n

Between the Masques
\nDiane DuBose Brunner<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the Turn of the Century to the New Age: Playing Indian, Past and Present
\nShari Huhndorf<\/strong><\/p>\n

Troublemakers
\nRolando Romero<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ritchie Valens Is Dead: E Pluribus Unum
\nPatricia Penn Hilden<\/strong><\/p>\n

Notes on Contributors<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity University of California Press January 1998 282 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520210738 edited by William S. Penn, Professor of Creative Writing Michigan State University The thirteen contributors to As We Are Now invite readers to explore with them the untamed territory of race and mixblood identity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,19,666,125,8,3015,20],"tags":[5787,5779,5784,5789,5794,5793,5781,5778,5786,5780,5792,5791,5782,45,5788,5783,1284,5785,5795,5790],"class_list":["post-12868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-books","category-canada","category-gaylesbian","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-alfonso-rodriguez","tag-arturo-aldama","tag-carol-kalafatic","tag-craig-womack","tag-diane-brunner","tag-diane-d-brunner","tag-diane-dubose-brunner","tag-erika-aigner-alvarez","tag-inez-petersen","tag-kimberly-blaeser","tag-patricia-hilden","tag-patricia-p-hilden","tag-patricia-penn-hilden","tag-rainier-spencer","tag-rolando-romero","tag-shari-huhndorf","tag-university-of-california-press","tag-w-s-penn","tag-william-penn","tag-william-s-penn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12868","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=12868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47545,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12868\/revisions\/47545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}