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

• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (513 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8; 305.800973
• Soggetto topico: Cultural pluralism - United States; Ethnicity - United States; Racially mixed people - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: RootMaria P. P
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The multiracial experience
• ISBN: 1-5063-1949-1; 1-4833-2743-4; 1-4522-4776-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910480396703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II