{"id":689,"date":"2009-09-14T21:45:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T21:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=689"},"modified":"2016-10-12T20:52:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T20:52:16","slug":"hybridity-haunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Hybridity haunts the dreams of racial purity, then but not solely as its structural foil."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Hybridity haunts the dreams of racial purity, then but not solely as its structural foil.\u00a0 Certainly the existence of racial &#8220;hybrids&#8221; infuriated racists, as demonstrated by the efforts of nineteenth-century scientists to prove that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulattos<\/a> were infertile and would naturally die out.\u00a0 But hybridity also interrupts the ability of race to narrativize time.\u00a0 I find a suggestive emblem of such\u00a0disjunctive or hybrid temporality in &#8220;the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\">miscegenation<\/a> of time,&#8221; a phrase from which the state of racialist thinking can never be fully removed.\u00a0 The hybridization of genre implied in the miscegenation of time entails not simply the splicing together of different forms but the encounter of genre with its law and therein its indeterminancy.\u00a0 Exposing fictions of race and progress, hybridity\u00a0unsettles collective and corporeal memory&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nyong&#8217;o Tavia, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=535\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance and the Ruses of Memory<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009) 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hybridity haunts the dreams of racial purity, then but not solely as its structural foil.\u00a0 Certainly the existence of racial &#8220;hybrids&#8221; infuriated racists, as demonstrated by the efforts of nineteenth-century scientists to prove that mulattos were infertile and would naturally die out.\u00a0 But hybridity also interrupts the ability of race to narrativize time.\u00a0 I find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1071],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-nyongo-tavia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","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=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49419,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/49419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}