Qualitative Interviews of Racial Fluctuations: The 'How' of Latina/o-White Hybrid Identity

摘要

Using qualitiative interviewing, this article exposes the performative moments of the Latina/o-White hybrid social actor (i.e., individuals born of one White parent and one Latina/o parent). This study draws on performance studies theories and concepts to demonstrate how these individuals work within and outside the limitations of today's U.S. discourse on race and ethnicity. Finding four major themes (i.e., ritual disciplines, body as text, language as text, and institutes of identity), this article provides the tensions of the participants' mixed positionality yet also points to the imaginative possibilities that can come through communicating such an identity.