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Yamaguchi, Masataka. 2012. Finding culture in ‘poetic’ structures: The case of a ‘racially-mixed’ Japanese/New Zealander. Journal of multicultural discourses 7 (1) : 99–117.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

hegemony | identity negotiation | language and culture | race | racism

Language as a subject

Japanese | Languages, New Zealand

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Using the ‘poetic’ structure notion, this paper reveals how a ‘racially-mixed’ Japanese New Zealander discursively constructs his mixed identities by presupposing ‘pure race’ and whiteness hegemony as social facts.