Mixed orientations

Subjectivity - Tập 7 - Trang 92-109 - 2014
Sara Ahmed1
1Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK

Tóm tắt

This article thinks about mixed raceness as orientation drawing on personal experience, Black feminism and phenomenology. It argues that mixed orientations are not simply about what a body has, or even what a body can do, but involves a material and affective geography: affecting the way we gather, or ‘the we’ of a gathering: bodies, objects and worlds come together as well as break apart. This article in offering a queer and mixed genealogy gives a different angle on how whiteness is reproduced.

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