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Taking inspiration from Queer Theory, this article introduces the analytic framework of Mixed-Race Thought , to consider how a position of racial indeterminacy might prompt mixed-race people and their interlocutors to reflect on the terms and limits of racial classifications, and inspire a more radical conception of them. The article describes this process using the concept of classificatory dissonance . The dissonance of the mixed-race experience is a quotidian jarring of the type common to the formation of radical thought. On these terms, indeterminacy should not be understood as a tragedy of exclusion and anomie. It is rather a condition whose dissonant qualities inspire critical interrogations of the terms of social orders, and imaginative conceptualizations of new possibilities. Moving beyond the limiting historical concepts of mestizaje and biracial , Mixed-Race Thought considers the political and conceptual possibilities afforded by reconceptualizing the mixed-race person not in implicit reference to the hegemonic classifications of race, but rather in reference to embodied indeterminacy itself.

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