Ethics of Racial Identity
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The Ethics of Difference: Inscribing Race Mixture in Literature. Tru Leverette, University of North Florida
This paper will attempt to elaborate an ethics of difference through race mixture, in part through an analysis of Colson Whitehead’s 2009 novel Sag Harbor.
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Authentic and Multiracial: Formulating a Treatment for Native American Mixed-bloods. Nicole Rabin, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
Looking at Native American multiracials, this paper will attempt to trace a workable theory of multiraciality in which the particularities of micro-political, material, and historical moments of racial and cultural mixing are recognized.
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Fetishizing Hybridity: Mixed-Race Portrayals in Sci-fi and Fantasy Texts as Narratives of Intimate Privilege. Nathan Rambukkana, York University
Using a discourse analysis of Sci-Fi/Fantasy texts, this paper problematizes how mixed-race hybridity is figured, portrayed and fetishized in these narratives, viewing this recurring trope as ambivalent and fraught, caught between increased mixed-race representation and a reification of “intimate privilege”.
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Slimy Subjects? Mixed-race Metaphors and Neoliberal Multiculturalism. Daniel McNeil, Newcastle University
This paper unveils the plural and contradictory genealogies of mixed-race metaphors by engaging with activist-intellectuals who condemn the bad faith of ‘slimy subjects’ and neoliberal multiculturalism.
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