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Eurasian Persuasions: Mixed Race, Performativity and Cosmopolitanism
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Eurasian Persuasions: Mixed Race, Performativity and Cosmopolitanism

Julie M Matthews
Journal of Intercultural Studies, Vol.28(1), pp.41-54
2007
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07256860601082921
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Human Geography Cultural Studies Eurasian performativity cosmopolitanism hybridity
Eurasians are 'in'. We are the poster children of globalisation. In Asia, and increasingly in the West, mixed-race Eurasian models charm us with their cosmopolitan chic. Terms previously used to demarcate impure outsiders such as Eurasian mixed-race, hybridity, mestiza, hapa, haafu, Euro-Asian and Anglo-Asian have recently been given an affirmative spin. This essay argues that the appeal, allure and persuasions of Eurasian/mixed-race are as much an effect of its commodified production as a cosmopolitan figure with automatic racial, cultural and national border crossing attributes, as its capacity and potential to claim for itself a location and space of visibility. Framed as a performative, the visual aesthetics and cosmopolitan attributes of Eurasian/mixed-race are explored in relation to postcolonial practices of racialisation and sexualisation under globalisation. Factors evoked in the constitution of Eurasian/mixed race delimit rather than preclude its promise of an expansive transnational/transcultural cosmopolitan future.

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