{"id":36871,"date":"2014-07-24T07:30:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T07:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36871"},"modified":"2014-07-24T08:08:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T08:08:45","slug":"positioning-of-the-mixed-race-author-and-mixed-race-protagonist-in-british-childrens-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36871","title":{"rendered":"Positioning of the Mixed Race Author and Mixed Race Protagonist in British Children\u2019s Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Positioning of the Mixed Race Author and Mixed Race Protagonist in British Children\u2019s Literature<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Critical Pedagogies: Equality and Diversity in a Changing Institution<\/a>
\n2014-07-23<\/p>\n

Ludovic Foster<\/strong>, Ph.D. Candidate
\nDepartment Gender Studies
\nUniversity of Sussex, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n

I would like to examine a few of the issues around the positioning of the mixed race child, and mixed race identified author in a literary context. Considering the mixed race child in this context is particularly important and necessary in a society where the marginalization of non- binary identities is embedded within foundational ideologies and power structures of the white supremacist heteropatriarchy in which historically binary ways of thinking have also often been used as a tool of Western colonial oppression. Such hierarchical ideologies have been driven by imperialist, global, capitalist economies for reasons such as nation building. Many of these aforementioned factors have contributed to some societies actively encouraging the perpetration and overwhelming dominance of normative mono sexual, racial and gender identities.<\/p>\n

The mixed child as a character could be said to stand as a figure of resistance against such normative symbolism. When writing about the subject of multiracialism, I am conscious of the inherent historical global and cultural changeability and instability of language when it comes to describing mixed race people and it means to be mixed race; and the fact that the term mixed race can describe a wide range and intersections of racial, ethnic and cultural identities such multifold identities that are not dependant on whiteness for validity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe term \u2018mixed race\u2019 itself may not reflect the complexity of its own formation through historical entanglements and contemporary redefinitions. This may account for the gradual displacement of \u2018mixed race\u2019 by a notion of \u2018multiraciality\u2019 that points to multiplicity being the form of contemporary identity itself\u201d (Parker, Song 2001: 8). There is a very complex and nuanced global cultural history of people defined as \u201cmixed race,\u201d and I am aware that even the term \u201cmixed race\u201d itself could be seen as upholding a system that gives credibility to the notion of a singular and \u201cpure\u201d mono race. Although I believe that all people are \u201cmixed\u201d to some degree there is a very particular political, cultural and racialized positioning inherent in being identified as first generation mixed race in certain national transnational and global social and economic contexts.<\/strong> I suggest that the global cultural influence of the American hierarchical racial ideology and classification system known as the \u201cone drop rule<\/a>\u201d, a hypodescent<\/a> system which is embedded in a history of white supremacy, and the economics of slavery and racial segregation, has had a particular global and cultural impact on the way we think about what it means to have a mix of African and European ancestry…<\/p>\n

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Positioning of the Mixed Race Author and Mixed Race Protagonist in British Children\u2019s Literature Critical Pedagogies: Equality and Diversity in a Changing Institution 2014-07-23 Ludovic Foster, Ph.D. Candidate Department Gender Studies University of Sussex, United Kingdom I would like to examine a few of the issues around the positioning of the mixed race child, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,10],"tags":[17626,17625,17623,17622],"class_list":["post-36871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-critical-pedagogies","tag-critical-pedagogies-equality-and-diversity-in-a-changing-institution","tag-ludovic-foster","tag-ludovic-stanley-eli-foster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36871","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=36871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}