{"id":591,"date":"2009-09-02T00:59:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T00:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=591"},"modified":"2013-03-22T23:14:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T23:14:03","slug":"hybrid-border-crossers-towards-a-radical-socialisation-of-mixed-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid Border-Crossers? Towards a Radical Socialisation of ‘Mixed Race’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hybrid Border-Crossers? Towards a Radical Socialisation of ‘Mixed Race’<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies<\/a>
\nVolume 35, Issue 1<\/a> (January 2009)
\npages 115 – 132
\nDOI: 10.1080\/13691830802489275<\/a><\/p>\n

Jin Haritaworn<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor in Gender, Race and Environment at the Faculty of Environmental Studies
\nYork University, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

The celebration of ‘mixed race’ as the model ‘transgressive’ (post-)identity obfuscates the ambivalence at the root of this construct.\u00a0 Far from ‘abolishing’ race or throwing it into crisis, ‘mixed-race’ bodies and minds continue to be evaluated as disparate, unwholesome and non-belonging, and appear to invite dissective reading practices such as stares, intrusive questions and comments which are commonly treated as a ‘normal reaction to abnormal bodies’.<\/strong> In this article I examine semi-structured interviews with 22 people of Thai and non-Thai parentage in Britain and Germany. \u00a0Drawing on Fanon’s existential phenomenology, I theorise interviewees’ everyday confrontations with intrusive reading practices of their bodies, origins, loyalties and families.\u00a0 The persistence of pathologising discourses and practices on ‘mixed race’ renders celebratory notions of ‘hybrid border-crossers’ problematic. \u00a0Rather than a pre-social property of particular bodies which trigger intrusive labelling attempts, ‘ambiguous phenotype’ is socially produced in biologistic race discourses and violent reading practices. ‘Mixed race’ should be more aptly theorised as a dissective racialising technology which mobilises essentialised forms of knowledge and entitles some to gaze at and define others.\u00a0\u00a0 It is constituted in power relations which are socially produced and, hence, also open to contestation and change.<\/p>\n

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Hybrid Border-Crossers? Towards a Radical Socialisation of ‘Mixed Race’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 35, Issue 1 (January 2009) pages 115 – 132 DOI: 10.1080\/13691830802489275 Jin Haritaworn, Assistant Professor in Gender, Race and Environment at the Faculty of Environmental Studies York University, Canada The celebration of ‘mixed race’ as the model ‘transgressive’ (post-)identity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8,10],"tags":[133,12295,12296,1876],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-jin-haritaworn","tag-jinthana-haritaworn","tag-jinthana-k-haritaworn","tag-journal-of-ethnic-and-migration-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","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=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}