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Ethics of Racial Identity

Session 1 - Saturday 8:15-9:45am
Ching Hall 254
Presiding Officer: 
Adebe DeRango-Adem
Session Chair (if other than PO): 
Nicole Rabin
  1. 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.

  2. 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”.

  3. 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.

Session Type: 
Special Session
Session Status: 
Closed