{"id":233,"date":"2009-07-06T20:08:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T20:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=233"},"modified":"2013-06-08T02:44:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T02:44:10","slug":"caucasian-and-thai-make-a-good-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"`Caucasian and Thai make a good mix&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1367549408098705\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>`Caucasian and Thai make a good mix&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecs.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">European Journal of Cultural Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ecs.sagepub.com\/content\/12\/1.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 12, Number 1<\/a> (February 2009)<br \/>\npages 59-78<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1367549408098705\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/1367549408098705<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/fes\/wa\/FacultyProfiles\/app\/profile\/1062873\" target=\"_blank\">Jin Haritaworn<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor in Gender, Race and Environment at the Faculty of Environmental Studies<br \/>\n<em>York University, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article examines the current celebration of Eur\/Asianness in the media and popular culture. It traces representations of the `mixed race&#8217; body, from colonial discourses of degeneracy and monstrosity to capitalist discourses of commercialized exoticism and `beauty&#8217;.\u00a0 It then examines how people of Thai and non-Thai parentage interviewed in Britain and Germany in 2001 and 2002 negotiated gendered and racialized readings of their bodies. Narratives of multi-racialized embodiment brim with racism, as the `valuable&#8217; or `pathological&#8217;, `good&#8217; or `bad mixes&#8217;, of unlike body parts grafted onto each other. <strong>This necessitates a critical re-evaluation of `hybridity&#8217; debates, which treat biological racism as a past phenomenon that can be metaphorized for cultural processes of identification.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/ecs.sagepub.com\/content\/12\/1\/59.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>`Caucasian and Thai make a good mix&#8217; European Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 12, Number 1 (February 2009) pages 59-78 DOI: 10.1177\/1367549408098705 Jin Haritaworn, Assistant Professor in Gender, Race and Environment at the Faculty of Environmental Studies York University, Canada This article examines the current celebration of Eur\/Asianness in the media and popular culture. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,16,8,10],"tags":[987,133,12295,12296],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-european-journal-of-cultural-studies","tag-jin-haritaworn","tag-jinthana-haritaworn","tag-jinthana-k-haritaworn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","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=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}