{"id":24534,"date":"2013-07-17T03:17:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T03:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24534"},"modified":"2017-02-24T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T19:00:09","slug":"machado-viewed-the-challenge-of-achieving-upward-mobility-and-public-success-without-also-compromising-his-personal-integrity-as-merely-one-of-the-myriad-epiphenomena-of-universal-duality-and-ambiguit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24534","title":{"rendered":"Machado viewed the challenge of achieving upward mobility and public success without also compromising his personal integrity as merely one of the myriad epiphenomena of universal duality and ambiguity."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Notwithstanding the long-held belief that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joaquim_Maria_Machado_de_Assis\" target=\"_blank\">Machado<\/a> sought to at best to camouflage and at worst deny being a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a>, <strong>I contend that his primary motivation was to achieve a sense of racelessness.<\/strong> He endeavored to go beyond the physical limitations of being a mulatto to become a \u201cmeta-mulatto,\u201d that is, a mulatto whose writing grappled with the universal questions of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/duality\" target=\"_blank\">duality<\/a> and ambiguity in all human existence\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> in a higher sense. He displayed what has been termed \u201cmestizo consciousness,\u201d \u201cradical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14551\" target=\"_blank\">mestizaje<\/a>,\u201d and \u201ccritical hybridity\u201d (Anzald\u00faa 1987, 77; Ramirez 1983, 6; Sandoval 2000, 72; Daniel 2005, 264; Lund 2006, 55) by affirming a mulatto identity grounded in a more inclusive or universal self, beyond questions of racial, cultural, or any other specificity.\u00a0 As a multiracial individual of African and European descent in a society that prized whiteness and stigmatized blackness, Machado viewed the challenge of achieving upward mobility and public success without also compromising his personal integrity as merely one of the myriad <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/epiphenomenon\" target=\"_blank\">epiphenomena<\/a> of universal duality and ambiguity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>G. Reginald Daniel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=18391\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist<\/em><\/a>, (University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012): 120-121.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notwithstanding the long-held belief that Machado sought to at best to camouflage and at worst deny being a mulatto, I contend that his primary motivation was to achieve a sense of racelessness. He endeavored to go beyond the physical limitations of being a mulatto to become a \u201cmeta-mulatto,\u201d that is, a mulatto whose writing grappled [&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":[142,3781,8304],"class_list":["post-24534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-g-reginald-daniel","tag-joaquim-maria-machado-de-assis","tag-machado-de-assis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24534","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=24534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47283,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24534\/revisions\/47283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}