ABSTRACT
Mike deploys color by linking appearances to a visible register that is key to ethnicity. Color is thus coded and deployed as a key part of ethnicity. The emic conceptualization of ethnicity is here not only connected to culture, language and other non-corporal concepts, it is also connected to bodies and color, concepts that in our newer history have been linked to definitions of race. It is interesting to note the conflation of culture and race into ethnicity as it marks out an experience-near understanding of ethnicity. Mariana and Mike give credence to this as they reflexively claim that ethnicity is not synonymous with race but then acknowledge that color and racialized knowledge are embedded in ethnicity due to its historicity. The hybridization and purification of discourse play key roles in the structuring of social relations in that pre-modern, modern and postmodern discourses are linked, they fuse, translate and mask the interlinking of race and ethnicity and culture.
