Chapter 16 All Mixed Up: A New Racial Commonsense in Global Perspective 1 G. Reginald Daniel and Gary L. Haddow ln this increasingly globalized world it is critical to deconstruct essentialized notions of racial (and cultural) difference that accompanied European colonialism as well as to demystify the notion of a self-contained Europe. Accordingly, the study of globalization and global human history should be grounded in the concept of postcolonial "critical hybridity." This also challenges the rigid strategic essentialism espoused by radical Afrocentrism and interrogates any globalization of the U.S. one-drop rule as an antiracist tactic. The goal should be to embrace a moderate Afrocentrism premised on strategic antiessentialism, which is not only compatible with postcolonial critical hybridity but also catalytic in the formation of a "postcolonial blackness." The 2003 publication of the initial conclusions of the Human Genome Project and Human Genome Diversity Project underscores the legitimacy of the concept of critical hybridity. This research indicates that although certain geno- phenotypical traits may mark off population aggregates as different from one another, in fact, a "multiracial" lineage is the norm rather than the exception. The implications of this "new genetics" have been a cause for both celebration and concern in terms Of the connection between race, pharmacology, justice, genealogy, and intelligence. The "Molecular Portrait of Humanity" that emerges from these studies reiterates the limited relevance of race as a biological concept and portrays humans not as fixed "racial" essences but rather, the end result of extensive "racial" blending. Eurocentrism and the Master Racial Project: European Colonialism and Expansion Beginning in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the coloniali expansion of Western European nation-states-specifically Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Denmark, and England-led to encounters