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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785019203321

Autore

Daniel G. Reginald <1949->

Titolo

More than Black? [[electronic resource] ] : multiracial identity and the new racial order / / G. Reginald Daniel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2002

ISBN

9786612701146

1-4399-0483-9

1-282-70114-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

305.8/04

Soggetti

Racism - United States - History

Racially mixed people - Race identity - United States

African Americans - Race identity

White people - Race identity - United States

Eurocentrism - History

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-241) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Eurocentrism: the origin of the master racial project -- Either black or white: the United States and the binary racial project -- White by definition: multiracial identity and the binary racial project -- Black by law: multiracial identity and the ternary racial project -- The new multiracial identity: both black and white -- The new multiracial identity: neither black nor white -- Black by popular demand: multiracial identity and the decennial census -- The illusion of inclusion: from white domination to white hegemony -- The new millennium: toward a new master racial project.

Sommario/riassunto

In the United States, anyone with even a trace of African American ancestry has been considered black. Even as the twenty-first century opens, a racial hierarchy still prevents people of color, including individuals of mixed race, from enjoying the same privileges as Euro-Americans. In this book, G. Reginald Daniel argues that we are at a cross-roads, with members of a new multiracial movement pointing the way toward equality.Tracing the centuries-long evolution of



Eurocentrism, a concept geared to protecting white racial purity and social privilege, Daniel shows how race has been...