{"id":32577,"date":"2013-07-26T21:51:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T21:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32577"},"modified":"2016-05-28T18:17:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T18:17:33","slug":"imagining-hybrid-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32577","title":{"rendered":"imagining hybrid cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

imagining hybrid cities<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The State<\/a>
\n2013-07-25<\/p>\n

Tiana Reid<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I started this series<\/a> on crossing and mixing by considering temporality and its hold on how we imagine hybridity. The recent discourse centered on the unshakable \u2018browning\u2019 or \u2018beiging\u2019 of mostly urban populations in the decades to come offers itself up through the prevailing \u2018hybrid futures\u2019 narrative. In The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory<\/a><\/em>, NYU professor Tavia Nyong\u2019o<\/a> made it clear that his 2009 book was not \u201cyet another attempt to claim mixed-race America as a utopian future that \u2018will\u2019 just happen \u2018in time,\u2019 as Theodore Tilton<\/a> held.\u201d And last month, still, a claim against this mixed futurism persisted<\/a> in my writing for The State <\/em>as I drew on Lee Edelman<\/a> to consider the \u201cfigural Child\u201d as the ultimate citizen.<\/p>\n

What is in the background of this, all of this, but also undergirding it, is the hybrid city. The urban and the cosmopolitan. While \u2018hybrid cities\u2019 isn\u2019t necessarily an accepted or used concept at large, a quick Google<\/a> and Google image<\/a> search shows a technology-based, almost people-free imaginary. We know, too, that hybrid cities come synonymously with hybrid cars, that is, \u2018pure\u2019 innovation and more recently perhaps, the \u2018White entrepreneurial guy<\/a>.\u2019 And, what\u2019s more, they\u2019re Jetsons<\/a><\/em>-esque, a projection in which jokes are made to signify that the future is White.<\/p>\n

Here, I\u2019d like to think again about hybrid futures. And, broadly speaking, how race codes the city without falling into what, say, the contested terrain of afrofuturism at large attempts to counter, i.e. that blackness and technology (\/future) do not make sense together. The city, more so than the country, is emblematic of everything new. The hybrid future, then, is a decidedly urban one…<\/p>\n

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imagining hybrid cities The State 2013-07-25 Tiana Reid I started this series on crossing and mixing by considering temporality and its hold on how we imagine hybridity. The recent discourse centered on the unshakable \u2018browning\u2019 or \u2018beiging\u2019 of mostly urban populations in the decades to come offers itself up through the prevailing \u2018hybrid futures\u2019 narrative. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,8,6941,20],"tags":[14228,14229],"class_list":["post-32577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-philosophy","category-usa","tag-the-state","tag-tiana-reid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32577","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=32577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47148,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32577\/revisions\/47148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}