{"id":42436,"date":"2015-08-29T01:18:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T01:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42436"},"modified":"2015-08-29T01:18:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T01:18:56","slug":"times-fluid-mobile-and-ambivalent-constructing-racial-personal-identity-in-james-mcbrides-the-color-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42436","title":{"rendered":"Times Fluid, Mobile and Ambivalent: Constructing Racial &#038; Personal Identity in James McBride\u2019s The Color of Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.aiac.org.au\/index.php\/IJALEL\/article\/view\/1566\" target=\"_blank\">Times Fluid, Mobile and Ambivalent: Constructing Racial &amp; Personal Identity in James McBride\u2019s The Color of Water<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.aiac.org.au\/index.php\/IJALEL\/index\" target=\"_blank\">International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.aiac.org.au\/index.php\/IJALEL\/issue\/view\/101\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 4, Number 5<\/a> (2015)<br \/>\npages 63-71<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.7575\/aiac.ijalel.v.4n.5p.63\" target=\"_blank\">10.7575\/aiac.ijalel.v.4n.5p.63<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:yuanchin@cute.edu.tw\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Yuan-Chin Chang<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDepartment of Applied English Studies<br \/>\n<em>China University of Technology, Wunshan District, Taipei City 116, Taiwan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesmcbride.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">James McBride\u2019s<\/a> memoir <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7134\" target=\"_blank\">The Color of Water<\/a><\/em> provides a rich and nuanced history of the author \u2013 a Black American man \u2013 and his white mother. Using the theories of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homi_K._Bhabha\" target=\"_blank\">Bhabha<\/a> regarding hybridity, ambivalence and a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Third_Space_Theory\" target=\"_blank\">Third Space<\/a> between different cultures or individuals, it is demonstrated that racial and personal identities are constructed, and historically reconstructed, as flexible and mobile entities in this memoir. The linking of narratives and voices across different decades demonstrates the Third Space in the relationship between McBride and his mother, and each individual\u2019s relationship to and understanding of themselves in a broader multiracial culture. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacques_Lacan\" target=\"_blank\">Lacan\u2019s<\/a> theories regarding rhetoric and signification are also used to underpin an exploration of the ways in which McBride portrays his own changing understanding of biracial identity in America.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.7575\/aiac.ijalel.v.4n.5p.63\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times Fluid, Mobile and Ambivalent: Constructing Racial &amp; Personal Identity in James McBride\u2019s The Color of Water International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature Volume 4, Number 5 (2015) pages 63-71 DOI: 10.7575\/aiac.ijalel.v.4n.5p.63 Yuan-Chin Chang Department of Applied English Studies China University of Technology, Wunshan District, Taipei City 116, Taiwan James McBride\u2019s memoir The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,20],"tags":[20854,364,20853],"class_list":["post-42436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-international-journal-of-applied-linguistics-and-english-literature","tag-james-mcbride","tag-yuan-chin-chang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42436","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=42436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42437,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42436\/revisions\/42437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}