Hybridity, in its most basic sense, refers to mixture. The term originates from biology[1] and was subsequently employed in linguistics and in racial theory in the nineteenth century.[2] Its contemporary uses are scattered across numerous academic disciplines and is salient in popular culture.[3] Hybridity is used in discourses about race, postcolonialism, identity, anti-racism and multiculturalism, and globalization, developed from its roots as a biological term.
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- ^ Young, Robert. Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race, 1995, Putnam, ISBN 0-415-05374-9.
- ^ pp.106-136. Hutnyk, John. ‘Adorno at Womad: South Asian crossovers and the limits of hybridity-talk’, in Debating Cultural Hybridity, ed. by Tariq Modood and Pnina Werbner, 1997, Zed Books, ISBN 1856494241.