Dis/Assembling White Racial Power: Asian-white Mixedness and the Regeneration of Race

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Characterisations of post-racial mixedness and economically thriving Asian-ness significantly shapeWestern thinking about the future of race. This two-part thesis argues that, where these categoriesconverge, 'Asian-white mixedness' holds a vital stake in the growth or decline of white racial power.Section one analyses the cultural production of Asian-white mixedness to demonstrate itsentanglement in whiteness. Section two presents a comparative ethnography to assess how(mixed-race) Asian activists in Melbourne and NYC instead pursue anti-racist agendas. Overall, thisinterdisciplinary, transnational and intersectional study explores how those made covertly complicitin white racial power can become active agents in its undoing.