This article examines the current celebration of Eur/ Asianness in the media and popular culture. It traces representations of the `mixed race' body, from colonial discourses of degeneracy and monstrosity to capitalist discourses of commercialized exoticism and `beauty'. It then examines how people of Thai and non-Thai parentage interviewed in Britain and Germany in 2001 and 2002 negotiated gendered and racialized readings of their bodies. Narratives of multi-racialized embodiment brim with racism, as the `valuable' or `pathological', `good' or `bad mixes', of unlike body parts grafted onto each other. This necessitates a critical re-evaluation of `hybridity' debates, which treat biological racism as a past phenomenon that can be metaphorized for cultural processes of identification.
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