{"id":27551,"date":"2013-01-14T03:27:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T03:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27551"},"modified":"2013-09-22T00:52:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T00:52:39","slug":"harry-potter-and-the-mistaken-myth-of-the-mixed-race-messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27551","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter and the mistaken myth of the Mixed-Race messiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.academia.edu\/2152522\/Hamako_E._2012_._Harry_Potter_and_the_mistaken_myth_of_the_Mixed-Race_messiah._Paper_presented_at_the_Critical_Mixed_Race_Studies_Conference_DePaul_University_Chicago_IL\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Potter and the mistaken myth of the Mixed-Race messiah<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paper presented at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference<br \/>\nDePaul University, Chicago, Illinois<br \/>\n2012-11-03<br \/>\n6 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/erichamako.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Hamako<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>University of Massachusetts, Amherst<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Potter\" target=\"_blank\">The <em>Harry Potter<\/em> franchise<\/a> has worldwide popularity. Contained within Harry Potter are popular stories about Mixed-Race, both appealing and toxic. <em>Harry Potter<\/em> and other science fiction and fantasy narratives attempt to address popular anxieties about racism and racial power. But what are they saying? Will vigorous hybrid messiahs herald racial salvation? Will degenerate hybrid monsters cause a racial apocalypse? In this paper, I explore White Supremacist and Christian Supremacist ideas about Mixed-Race prevalent in current science fiction &amp; fantasy movie franchises, such as Harry Potter, and why people shouldn&#8217;t believe the hybrid hype&#8230; or the hate.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.academia.edu\/2152522\/Hamako_E._2012_._Harry_Potter_and_the_mistaken_myth_of_the_Mixed-Race_messiah._Paper_presented_at_the_Critical_Mixed_Race_Studies_Conference_DePaul_University_Chicago_IL\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Potter and the mistaken myth of the Mixed-Race messiah Paper presented at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois 2012-11-03 6 pages Eric Hamako University of Massachusetts, Amherst The Harry Potter franchise has worldwide popularity. Contained within Harry Potter are popular stories about Mixed-Race, both appealing and toxic. Harry Potter 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":[1196,8,14,20],"tags":[1525,8941],"class_list":["post-27551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-papers","category-usa","tag-eric-hamako","tag-harry-potter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27551","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=27551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}