Race is defined not by its purity but rather by the impurity…

Posted in Excerpts/Quotes on 2013-03-28 19:17Z by Steven

Race is defined not by its purity but rather by the impurity conferred upon it by a system of domination. Bastard and mixed-blood are the true names of race.

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1980).

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