{"id":24177,"date":"2012-07-05T23:08:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T23:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24177"},"modified":"2012-07-08T00:41:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T00:41:34","slug":"while-goldberg-and-gilroy-have-alluded-to-mixed-race-metaphors-in-their-recent-work-lewis-gordon-has-written-more-extensively-about-the-attempts-to-establish-%e2%80%98critical%e2%80%99-mixed-race-stu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24177","title":{"rendered":"While Goldberg and Gilroy have alluded to mixed-race metaphors in their recent work, Lewis Gordon has written more extensively about the attempts to establish \u2018critical\u2019 mixed-race studies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faculty.uci.edu\/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4716\/\" target=\"_blank\">Goldberg<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.lse.ac.uk\/sociology\/whoswho\/academic\/gilroy.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Gilroy<\/a> have alluded to mixed-race metaphors in their recent work, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.temple.edu\/isrst\/LGordon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Gordon<\/a> has written more extensively about the attempts to establish \u2018critical\u2019 mixed-race studies. Reflecting on the historical discrimination and colourism in an anti-black world, Gordon has argued that it is understandable \u2013 if not morally justifiable \u2013 for working-class individuals and darker-skinned individuals to be distrustful of middle-class individuals and lighter-skinned individuals who claim to be progressive. <strong>Gordon\u2019s use of slime to describe the aims of a wide variety of mixed-race activists and \u2018sensitive\u2019 scholars \u2013 who talk politely about racial transcendence while denying the facticity of their privileged position in an anti-black world \u2013 is a particularly interesting term since it evokes animalistic behaviour, infantile play, salesmen pitching new, hip commodities for a polyethnic culture.<\/strong> It also offers a transracial, transdisciplinary and transnational engagement with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francophone\" target=\"_blank\">Francophone<\/a> theory. Aside from adapting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frantz_Fanon\" target=\"_blank\">Fanon\u2019s<\/a> critique of European man, Gordon\u2019s analysis of multiracial celebration draws on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-Paul_Sartre\" target=\"_blank\">Sartre\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ontology\" target=\"_blank\">ontology<\/a> of slime (a sticky, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Viscoelasticity\" target=\"_blank\">viscoelastic<\/a> material that resists shear flow and strain linearly with time when a stress is applied,) and reminds us of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roland_Barthes\" target=\"_blank\">Barthes\u2019s<\/a> famous description of neither-norism (a \u2018mythological figure which consists in stating two opposites and balancing the one by the other so as to reject them both&#8230; It is on the whole a bourgeois figure, for it relates to a modern form of liberalism&#8230; one flees from intolerable reality \u2026 one no longer needs to choose, but only to endorse.\u2019)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Daniel McNeil, \u201c<a href=\" http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=24125\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Mixture is a Neoliberal Good\u2019: Mixed-Race Metaphors and Post-Racial Masks<\/a>,\u201d <em>Darkmatter<\/em>, Volume 9, Issue 1, (Post-Racial Imaginaries), July 2, 2012. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmatter101.org\/site\/2012\/07\/02\/mixture-is-a-neoliberal-good-mixed-race-metaphors-and-post-racial-masks\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.darkmatter101.org\/site\/2012\/07\/02\/mixture-is-a-neoliberal-good-mixed-race-metaphors-and-post-racial-masks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Goldberg and Gilroy have alluded to mixed-race metaphors in their recent work, Lewis Gordon has written more extensively about the attempts to establish \u2018critical\u2019 mixed-race studies. Reflecting on the historical discrimination and colourism in an anti-black world, Gordon has argued that it is understandable \u2013 if not morally justifiable \u2013 for working-class individuals and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2967,419,4455,6520,1357,9906],"class_list":["post-24177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-daniel-mcneil","tag-daniel-r-mcneil","tag-daniel-robert-mcneil","tag-lewis-gordon","tag-lewis-r-gordon","tag-lewis-ricardo-gordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24177","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=24177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}