{"id":8036,"date":"2010-07-19T20:05:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T20:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8036"},"modified":"2010-07-19T20:57:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T20:57:59","slug":"hybrid-navigator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8036","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid Navigator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/small_axe\/summary\/v014\/14.2.hoyt.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hybrid Navigator<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/small_axe\" target=\"_blank\">Small Axe<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/small_axe\/toc\/smx.14.2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Number 32 (Volume 14, Number 2), June 2010<\/a><br \/>\npages 150-159<br \/>\nE-ISSN: 1534-6714<br \/>\nPrint ISSN: 0799-0537<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.satchhoyt.com\" target=\"_blank\">Satch Hoyt<\/a><\/strong>, Artist\/Sculptor<\/p>\n<p>I was born in London to an Afro-Jamaican father and a white English mother in the late 1950s. It was, to say the least, a lonely <em>terra nova<\/em>, a traumatic neocolonial, cross-cultural terrain, that I was extremely ill equipped to traverse. My unwed mother was ostracized at my birth by her working-class parents. My sister and I never met our grandparents\u2014at <em>their<\/em> request. So from the outset my stage was lit in a racist hue. As the other\u2019s other, I struggled with my identity, floating in a void of black, white, Jamaican, and <em>Inglanisms<\/em>. I never felt English\u2014and <em>never<\/em> will. <em>No one lives a raceless reality<\/em>. The body and corporeal schema are in effect from birth. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=86\" target=\"_blank\">Hypo descent<\/a>, light skinned, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=440\" target=\"_blank\">half-caste<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a>, biracial, mixed race\u2014call us what you will. As a hybrid one learns to navigate the marginal seas of difference, to remain intact while floating between the two poles. The biracial paradigm is always looming on a cryptic horizon. Growing up in West London\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ladbroke_Grove\" target=\"_blank\">Ladbrook Grove<\/a>, the Jamaican and Trinidadian communities are where I found solace, listening to the narratives and the stories about <em>back-ah-yard<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/small_axe\/v014\/14.2.hoyt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hybrid Navigator Small Axe Number 32 (Volume 14, Number 2), June 2010 pages 150-159 E-ISSN: 1534-6714 Print ISSN: 0799-0537 Satch Hoyt, Artist\/Sculptor I was born in London to an Afro-Jamaican father and a white English mother in the late 1950s. It was, to say the least, a lonely terra nova, a traumatic neocolonial, cross-cultural terrain, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,395,125,6,10],"tags":[3374,3320],"class_list":["post-8036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-identitydevelopment","category-new-media","category-uk","tag-satch-hoyt","tag-small-axe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036","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=8036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}