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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791713903321

Titolo

The multiracial experience [[electronic resource] ] : racial borders as the new frontier / / Maria P.P. Root, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c1996

ISBN

1-5063-1949-1

1-4833-2743-4

1-4522-4776-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxviii, 481 p.) : ports

Altri autori (Persone)

RootMaria P. P

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

Racially mixed people - United States

Ethnicity - United States

Cultural pluralism - United States

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. 417-442) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Glossary; The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as a Significant Frontier in Race Relations; Part I - Human Rights; Chapter 1 - A Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People; Chapter 2 - Government Classification of Multiracial/ Multiethnic People; Chapter 3 - The Real World; Chapter 4 - Multiracial Identity in a Color-Conscious World; Chapter 5 - Transracial Adoptions: In Whose Best Interest?; Chapter 6 - Voices From the Movement: Approaches to Multiraciality; Part II - Identity; Chapter 7 - Hidden Agendas, Identity Theories, and Multiracial People

Chapter 8 - Black and White Identity in the New Millennium: Unsevering the Ties That BindChapter 9 - On Being and Not-Being Black and Jewish; Chapter 10 - An ""Other"" Way of Life: The Empowerment of Alterity in the Interracial Individual; Part III - Blending and Flexibility; Chapter 11 - LatiNegra: Mental Health Issues of African Latinas; Chapter 12 - Race as Process: Reassessing the ""What are You?"" Encounters of Biracial Individuals; Chapter 13 - Piecing Together the Puzzle: Self-Concept and Group Identity in Biracial Black/White Youth

Chapter 14 - Changing Face, Changing Race: The Remaking of Race in



the Japanese American and African American CommunitiesChapter 15 - Without a Template: The Biracial Korean/White Experience; Part IV - Gender and Sexual Identity; Chapter 16 - In the Margins of Sex and Race: Difference, Marginality, and Flexibility; Chapter 17 - (Un)Natural Boundaries: Mixed Race, Gender, and Sexuality; Chapter 18 - Heterosexual Alliances: The Romantic Management of Racial Identity; Chapter 19 - Ambiguous Bodies: Locating Black/White Women in Cultural Representations; Part V - Multicultural Education

Chapter 20 - Making the Invisible Visible: The Growth of Community Network OrganizationsChapter 21 - Challenging Race and Racism: A Framework for Educators; Chapter 22 - Being Different Together in the University Classroom: Multiracial Identity as Transgressive Education; Chapter 23 - Multicultural Education; Part VI - The New Millenium; Chapter 24 - 2001: A Race Odyssey; Appendix 1 - Executive Office of Management and Budget; Appendix 2 - AMEA Proposed Revised OMB Minimum Reporting Standards with Multiracial, Multiethnic Categories; References; Index; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

In this book Maria Root uses her multiracial experience to challenge current theoretical and political conceptualizations of race, and redefine the way race and social relations are defined.