Black, White, and Brown: Representing the Interracial

Based on several of his publications as well as selections from Jose Antonio Villarreal’s Pocho and Randol Contreras’s „Standpoint Purgatorio,“ Jesse Ramirez  discussed with the Narrative Encounters team the history and development of interracial relations in the United States. We also spoke about the complexities of ethnic and racial identities in „a post-Black Lives Matter moment in US political and cultural history“ (Ramirez 2019) and about what speculative fiction can contribute to this important political and cultural moment.