The newest “Star Trek” movie deals with a subject close to my heart: interracial children.
As the mother of interracial children myself, I wondered how this fascination with dual parentage would play out. In the movie, it emerges not in the epic scope of interplanetary warfare, but in the figure of Spock, here situated as a biracial child coping with identity confusion.
Author: Leslie Bow is associate professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She wrote this for Progressive Media Project, a source of liberal commentary on domestic and international issues; it is affiliated with The Progressive magazine