TY - JOUR AU - Rachel Smith PY - 2016/05/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - “Of traditional Israel and Albion”: discourses of racial purity and the Jewish body in Mina Loy’s “Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose” JF - FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts JA - FORUM VL - 0 IS - 22 SE - Articles DO - 10.2218/forum.22.1477 UR - http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/1477 AB - This essay explores the modernist poet Mina Loy’s work “Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose” (1923) within its historical and cultural context. The poem consistently challenges ideologies such as eugenics, which informed anti-Semitism and sought to strengthen notions of racial purity. Incorporating the biopolitical theory of Rosi Braidotti, this essay explores how Loy exposes the figure of the Jewish “mongrel” as a constructed figure within eugenic discourse, in turn revealing the ways in which eugenic and biopolitical ideologies work together to govern, vilify, and glorify certain lives over others. ER -