Embodied Resistance: Multiracial Identity, Gender, and the Body
This article explores the importance of the physical body in the development of gendered racial and ethnic identities through in-depth semi-structured interviews with 11 multiracial/multiethnic women. From a critical mixed race and critical feminist perspective, I argue that the development of an em...
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| description | This article explores the importance of the physical body in the development of gendered racial and ethnic identities through in-depth semi-structured interviews with 11 multiracial/multiethnic women. From a critical mixed race and critical feminist perspective, I argue that the development of an embodied and gendered multiracial and multiethnic identity is a path to questioning and resisting the dominant monoracial order in the United States. Interviews reveal that respondents develop these embodied identities both through understandings of themselves as gendered and raced subjects and through relationships with monoracial individuals. The process by which these women understand their physical bodies as multiracial subjects illustrates a critical embodied component of the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b220bded81ff4afb900586222fc76e662022-12-21T23:05:59ZengMDPI AGSocial Sciences2076-07602019-07-018822110.3390/socsci8080221socsci8080221Embodied Resistance: Multiracial Identity, Gender, and the BodyGabrielle G. Gonzales0Department of Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USAThis article explores the importance of the physical body in the development of gendered racial and ethnic identities through in-depth semi-structured interviews with 11 multiracial/multiethnic women. From a critical mixed race and critical feminist perspective, I argue that the development of an embodied and gendered multiracial and multiethnic identity is a path to questioning and resisting the dominant monoracial order in the United States. Interviews reveal that respondents develop these embodied identities both through understandings of themselves as gendered and raced subjects and through relationships with monoracial individuals. The process by which these women understand their physical bodies as multiracial subjects illustrates a critical embodied component of the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/8/8/221multiracialgenderfeministembodimentracializationidentityresistance |
| spellingShingle | Gabrielle G. Gonzales Embodied Resistance: Multiracial Identity, Gender, and the Body Social Sciences multiracial gender feminist embodiment racialization identity resistance |
| title | Embodied Resistance: Multiracial Identity, Gender, and the Body |
| title_full | Embodied Resistance: Multiracial Identity, Gender, and the Body |
| title_fullStr | Embodied Resistance: Multiracial Identity, Gender, and the Body |
| title_full_unstemmed | Embodied Resistance: Multiracial Identity, Gender, and the Body |
| title_short | Embodied Resistance: Multiracial Identity, Gender, and the Body |
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| topic | multiracial gender feminist embodiment racialization identity resistance |
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