{"id":515,"date":"2009-08-27T01:07:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T01:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=515"},"modified":"2012-06-14T01:18:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T01:18:08","slug":"feeling-ancestral-the-emotions-of-mixed-race-and-memory-in-asian-american-cultural-productions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Ancestral: The Emotions of Mixed Race and Memory in Asian American Cultural Productions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/positions\/summary\/v016\/16.2.ana.html\" target=\"_blank\">Feeling Ancestral: The Emotions of Mixed Race and Memory in Asian American Cultural Productions<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/positions\" target=\"_blank\">positions: east asia cultures critique<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/positions\/toc\/pos.16.2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 16, Number 2<\/a>, Fall 2008<br \/>\npages\u00a0457-482<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunysb.edu\/english\/faculty\/santaana.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jeffrey Santa Ana<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor English Department<br \/>\n<em>Stony Brook University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The current era of war, militarism, and neocolonialism in the Pacific is a time in which capitalist expansion simultaneously generates and conceals the negative human consequences of globalization \u2014 for example, the tremendous upheaval and migration of Asian people. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diaspora\" target=\"_blank\">Diaspora<\/a>, dislocation, exile, and immigration born of economic necessity are the depressing contradictions to a capitalist paradise that has been optimistically envisaged as the end of history.\u00a0<sup> <\/sup>\u00a0Critics of globalization have theorized the ways in which the commercialization of human feeling conceals the anxieties, fears, and other negative affects that express the harsh underside of transnational capitalism. \u00a0<strong>Nowhere is this commercialization of emotion more obvious than in the marketing of multiculturalism and racial difference in global commerce. The commercial use of racial mixture is especially provocative in the way it signals, conditions, and manages distressing experiences, while assimilating them symmetrically and seamlessly into the transnational stage of capitalism. Clearly, racial mixture is a hot commodity in today\u2019s global market. Particularly in North America, the fascination with and consumption of multiraciality is evident in the notable increase in scholarship about multiraciality in the academy and the profusion of mixed-race productions in the culture industry, both of which reflect the commercialization of racial mixture in a globalized world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the last ten years, there has been an explosion of cultural productions about mixed-race people, and particularly of multiracial Asian Americans. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruth_Ozeki\" target=\"_blank\">Ruth Ozeki<\/a>\u2019s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">My Year of Meats<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Halving the Bones<\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kip_Fulbeck\" target=\"_blank\">Kip Fulbeck<\/a>\u2019s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Paper Bullets<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Part Asian, 100 Percent Hapa<\/span>, <em>Paisley<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling Ancestral: The Emotions of Mixed Race and Memory in Asian American Cultural Productions positions: east asia cultures critique Volume 16, Number 2, Fall 2008 pages\u00a0457-482 Jeffrey Santa Ana, Assistant Professor English Department Stony Brook University The current era of war, militarism, and neocolonialism in the Pacific is a time in which capitalist expansion simultaneously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,1196,8,20],"tags":[43,468,60,469,470],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-hapa","tag-jeffrey-santa-ana","tag-kip-fulbeck","tag-positions-east-asia-cultures-critique","tag-ruth-ozeki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","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=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}