Diane Lee ~ ASA 115 ~ Week 3 Reading

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The readings for week three exposes us to the long and detailed history of races mixing and the great lengths that were declared to keep the inferior races from mixing with the superior race. This week's readings connects to the theme: Criminals, Deviants, and Outcasts Passing as Privilege, Authenticity, and Tragedy because the commonly known idea is that different races coming together with a European race produces nothing good. As Asians came into the U.S. and the mixing of races were already being prohibited and seen as a problem, Asians were included into the anti-miscegenation laws. With the history of mixed race, I see the power dynamic concerning white people and people of color differently now. I did not realize that law after law and claim after claim were made in order to control how others live as well as to the point that not only Whites and Blacks were separated but Whites and Asians were separated too. In one of the readings by Thomas Teo, “The Historical Problematization of ‘Mixed Race’ in Psychological and Human-Scientific Discourses”, proposes how the term problematization is used with the topic of “mixed race” with a self-important perspective. It is believed that sex between two different races is unnatural and that the physical aspects of mixed race people are a result of “disharmony”(87). Therefore, there are so many claims about “hybridity” based on the differences of the races. Without looking at the differences between different races, why is mixing a problem?