[Susan replied on email, as apparently my blog is not user-friendly!]
Hi Pam. This is a thoughtful and provocative discussion. It can go on. I am thinking about the same thing, as I observe so many multi racial couples. What do we have now to identify even ethnicity, other than skin color, which is getting whiter and whiter. Is ethnicity even the point, is it food, is it social structures, is there anything? church??
In art, the ethnic or national markers have become signfiers of a touch of difference, just enough to get accepted.
[I would argue that skin colour is not getting whiter and whiter, but more neutral beige---skin tone seems to be one way of increasingly demonstrating that we are all one! Natch, the current would-be terrorist was a dark-skinned African, so we still have that trope of 'evil' going strong, despite its irrelevance. Pam]
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