Abstract:In this article, I analyze discourse taken from my interviews with a 'raciallymixed' Japanese/New Zealander in which he represents his ethno-national identities to me in New Zealand. Drawing on the concept of 'poetic' structure, I reveal implicit assumptions in the patternings of discourse. Specifically, he discursively constructs his 'racially-mixed' identities by presupposing 'pure race' as a social fact. It is also shown that a powerful implicit assumption is the hegemony of whiteness, to which he responds … Show more
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