Coloniality of Mixed Race and Mixed Language

Abstract

Abstract This chapter situates the study of race, language, and mixedness within imperial histories through which notions of racial and linguistic hybridity were and continue to be developed. It argues that questions of “mixed race” and “mixed language” are less about mixing races and languages and more about how evaluations of who and what is regarded as mixed are authorized in the ongoing reproduction of colonial hierarchies. After reviewing past research on mixed race and language, the chapter theoretically situates the concepts of race, language, and hybridity within a framework of coloniality that considers colonial, scientific, and liberal discourses surrounding imperial conquest. The chapter introduces four paradigms of mixedness that have been produced through this history: immiscibility, absorption, blend, and end. The chapter concludes with a case study to illustrate how notions of racial and linguistic hybridity frame a contemporary elite figure in the Philippines.

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