{"id":16022,"date":"2011-09-03T03:30:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T03:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16022"},"modified":"2017-04-12T00:13:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T00:13:33","slug":"the-consequence-of-race-mixture-racialised-barriers-and-the-politics-of-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16022","title":{"rendered":"The Consequence of Race Mixture: Racialised Barriers and the Politics of Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Consequence of Race Mixture: Racialised Barriers and the Politics of Desire<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Social Identities<\/a>
\nVolume 9, Issue 2<\/a> (2003)
\npages 241-275
\nDOI: 10.1080\/1350463032000101588<\/a><\/p>\n

Jared Sexton<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies
\nUniversity of California, Irvine<\/em><\/p>\n

The political… is not in itself stable, but is rather conditioned by mutability. Writ large for criticism, this means that a political criticism must not take its object for granted: in a specific sense, the object is not there in the first place<\/em>, for its condition is that it is marked by an interior historicity which subjects it to constant modification, constant shifting. The proper \u2018object\u2019 of the critic who is aware of the materiality of history is, paradoxically, an object conditioned not by its appearance relative to a covert essence, but rather an object conditioned precisely by its temporal disappearance or \u2018immaterialization<\/em>\u2019.<\/p>\n

Thomas Docherty<\/a>, 1996<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Reality is not composed of things-in-themselves or things-behind-phenomena, but things-in-phenomena. Because phenomena constitute a non-dualistic whole, it makes no sense to talk about independently existing things<\/em> as somehow behind or as the causes of phenomena … The referent is… a phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Karen Barad<\/a>, 1998<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

These epigraphs should be considered heretical to the project of the contemporary multiracial movement in the United States Insofar as its proponents and intellectuals speak of the \u2018the end(s) of race\u2019, the concept of multiraciality prides itself on the trouble it supposedly causes to the white supremacist rage for order, that is, its ostensible violation of racial discipline and its alleged threat to spurious notions of racial purity. The multiracial, as it were, cannot be fixed in place; by definition, it eludes the capture of a pernicious schema of racial classification. Nevertheless, this reputed disturbance of the colour line bears a cost.<\/p>\n

A self that is internally heterogeneous beyond repair or resolution becomes a candidate for pathology in a society where the integration of self is taken to be necessary for mental health. (Alcoff<\/a>, 1995, p. 261)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The multiracial is, then, fundamentally convoluted\u2014essentially difficult and complicated without end\u2014yet the seemingly inevitable link between such radical \u2018otherness\u2019 (other even to itself) and the pathology of disintegration is, in fact, an effect of the labour of articulation. That is to say, the relation between the terms can be re-inscribed in a gesture of more thoroughgoing…<\/p>\n

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These epigraphs should be considered heretical to the project of the contemporary multiracial movement in the United States Insofar as its proponents and intellectuals speak of the \u2018the end(s) of race\u2019, the concept of multiraciality prides itself on the trouble it supposedly causes to the white supremacist rage for order, that is, its ostensible violation of racial discipline and its alleged threat to spurious notions of racial purity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,6941,26,394,20],"tags":[1471,1036],"class_list":["post-16022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-jared-sexton","tag-social-identities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16022","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=16022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53426,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16022\/revisions\/53426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}