Plural Racial Ontologies: Living and Recognizing Mixed Race: An Australian Perspective on the Critical Work of Lewis R Gordon and Mixed-Race Theory

Abstract

In this chapter I engage in some critical ideas concerning mixed-race identities in an Australian Indigenous context. I will speak to it in terms of Lewis R. Gordon’s theories on the subject.² Much of Gordon’s thought has important relationships to Australian Indigenous theory.³ His work on Fanon and the interrogation of colonial experience of lived black bodies, the question of the meaning of human reality, racist oppression, and ontology is particularly influential. In short, it speaks to black reality. Gordon’s work gives us one of the most sophisticated and original analyses of race in the world today.