AS AM 137 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: White Supremacy, Model Minority, Cyborg
15 Nov 2017
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Searching for her birth mother, including on the plane with nhu. An identity based on experience of being multiethnic. Further divided by rich vs poor; men vs women; straight vs lgbtq. Asian occupy the middle ground of white and black. Model minority is just white supremacy coated in oriental skin. The celebration of mixedness is being used as mascot/ buffer between. Crossing of borders/ blurring of boundaries these phenomenal represent. An creature that mixing between human and artificial. To interrogate and break down the distinctions between the human and the artificial, between machine and nature. As a hybrid, the cyborg is not completely other. Even now, the role of computers and phones play in our lives is significant. Incoherence of the body of the cyborg as a parallel to the confusion and concern that centers on the body of the multiracial human.
