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Mixed, Multi-, and Bi-racial Identities: Sites of Resilience and Resistance (NeMLA 2023)

Niagara Falls, NY
Organization: NeMLA
Event: NeMLA 2023
Categories: Postcolonial, American, Hispanic & Latino, Interdisciplinary, British, Popular Culture, World Literatures, African-American, Colonial, Revolution & Early National, Transcendentalists, 1865-1914, 20th & 21st Century, Medieval, Early Modern & Renaissance, Long 18th Century, Romantics, Victorian, 20th & 21st Century, Aesthetics, Anthropology/Sociology, Classical Studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Film, TV, & Media, Food Studies, History, Philosophy, African & African Diasporas, Asian & Asian Diasporas, Australian Literature, Canadian Literature, Caribbean & Caribbean Diasporas, Indian Subcontinent, Eastern European, Mediterranean, Middle East, Native American, Scandinavian, Pacific Literature
Event Date: 2023-03-23 to 2023-03-26 Abstract Due: 2022-09-30

The mixed race, multi-racial, bi-racial, mulatto, or hapa figure is already one of crossing boundaries and as such transgressive, provocative, resilient in the face of anti-miscegenation and homogeneity. It speaks to embodiment and yet, as Claudine Chiawei O’Hearn notes in Half + Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial + Bicultural, “skin color and place of birth are not accurate signifiers of identity” (xiv). This panel seeks papers that investigate this figure in fiction as a multifaceted site of social interrogation, intersectionality, and personal identity. Topics could include, but are not limited to:


Mixed racial identities, multiculturalism

Colorism

Passing or dominant culture adjacency

Performance of race, racial appropriation

Identity as socio-political resistance

Anti-miscegenation laws

Code-switching

 

Abstracts can be submitted here: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/CFP

https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/CFP

dcostello@jessup.edu

Dorisa Costello