{"id":3972,"date":"2009-12-19T23:07:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T23:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3972"},"modified":"2014-01-16T15:56:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T15:56:17","slug":"%e2%80%9cthe-new-kubla-khan-mixed-race-multi-nationalism%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3972","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/\/meta\/p_mla_apa_research_citation\/1\/0\/5\/7\/1\/p105718_index.html?type=info\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association<br \/>\n2009-05-24<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/english.stanford.edu\/people\/michele-elam\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Elam<\/a><\/strong>, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English, Professor, Director of African &amp; African American Studies<br \/>\n<em>Stanford University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This paper examines how, and to what ends, people of the \u201cmixed race experience\u201d are being discursively contextualized as posterchildren of the \u201cpost-race,\u201d \u201cpost-nation\u201d era. As early as 1996, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanley_Crouch\" target=\"_blank\">Stanley Crouch<\/a> was proclaiming that \u201crace is over;\u201d since then, others also have rung race&#8217;s death knell: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/biography\/2009-Criticism\" target=\"_blank\">Holland Cotter<\/a> in a 2001 New York Times piece, for example, has claimed that the time for &#8220;ethno-racial identity&#8221; is past, that we are now witnessing the coming of &#8220;postblack or postethnic art&#8221; that represents what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appiah.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Appiah<\/a> recently called a \u201cNew Cosmopolitanism.\u201d This presentation argues that \u201cmixed race\u201d has emerged in the context of these \u201cpost-race\u201d cultural discourses, discourses which suggest, as Belize in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tony_Kushner\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Kushner<\/a>\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angels_in_America:_A_Gay_Fantasia_on_National_Themes\" target=\"_blank\">Angels in America<\/a><\/em> puts it, that \u201crace, taste and history\u201d are \u201cfinally overcome.\u201d Hybridity for many represents \u201clife after race\u201d(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uoregon.edu\/~uophil\/faculty\/profiles\/nzack\/\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi Zack<\/a>), a step \u201cbeyond race\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dineshdsouza.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dinesh D\u2019Sousa<\/a>), a gesture \u201cagainst race\u201d(<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.lse.ac.uk\/sociology\/whoswho\/academic\/gilroy.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Gilroy<\/a>), the \u201cnew racial order\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.ucsb.edu\/daniel.htm\" target=\"_blank\">G. Reginald Daniel<\/a>), a \u201cnew frontier\u201d(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drmariaroot.com\">Maria Root<\/a>) advanced by a \u201cnew people\u201d (Jon Michael Spencer) who are ushering in a new world beyond race, identity, and nation. <strong>My presentation examines this problematic representation of mixed race people as post-nation vanguards in both mainstream media and in the field of pop-culture, and the send-up of the idea that \u201cmixed race\u201d people constitute a new nation-beyond-nationalism in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danzysenna.com\" target=\"_blank\">Danzy Senna<\/a>\u2019s novel, <em>Symptomatic<\/em> (2005).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism\u201d Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association 2009-05-24 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English, Professor, Director of African &amp; African American Studies Stanford University This paper examines how, and to what ends, people of the \u201cmixed race experience\u201d are being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14,26,394],"tags":[1599,1340,1600,142,1597,721,140,365,1386,359,1592,1596,1598],"class_list":["post-3972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-archive","category-papers","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-anthony-appiah","tag-danzy-senna","tag-dinesh-dsousa","tag-g-reginald-daniel","tag-holland-cotter","tag-jon-michael-spencer","tag-maria-p-p-root","tag-maria-root","tag-michele-elam","tag-naomi-zack","tag-paul-gilroy","tag-stanley-crouch","tag-tony-kushner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972","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=3972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}