The politics of multiracialism : challenging racial thinking / / edited by Heather M. Dalmage

• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8/05073
• Soggetto topico: Multiracial people - Race identity - United States; Race awareness - United States; Ethnicity - United States; Racism - United States; Multiracial people - United States - Social conditions; Social movements - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
• Altri autori: DalmageHeather M. <1965->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Context of the Multiracial Movement -- All in the Family: the Familial Roots Of Racial Division -- Defending the Creation of Whiteness: White Supremacy and the Threat of Interracial Sexuality -- Racial Redistricting: Expanding the Boundaries of Whiteness -- Linking the Civil Rights and Multiracial Movements -- Discourses of the Multiracial Movement -- Beyond Pathology and Cheerleading: Insurgency, Dissolution, and Complicity in the Multiracial Idea -- Deconstructing Tiger Woods: the Promise and the Pitfalls of Multiracial Identity -- Multirace.Com: Multiracial Cyberspace -- “I Prefer to Speak of Culture”: White Mothers of Multiracial Children -- Lessons from the Multiracial Movement -- Model Majority? the Struggle for Identity among Multiracial Japanese Americans -- Transracial Adoption: Refocusing Upstream -- Protecting Racial Comfort, Protecting White Privilege -- Ideology of the Multiracial Movement: Dismantling the Color Line and Disguising White Supremacy? -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the first book to critically look at the political issues and interests surrounding the broadly defined Multiracial Movement and at what is being said about multiracialism. Many of the multiracial family organizations that exist across the United States developed socially, ideologically, and politically during the conservative Reagan years. While members of the Multiracial Movement differ widely in their political views, the concept of multiracialism has been taken up by conservative politicians in ways that are often inimical to the interests of traditionally defined minorities.Contributors look at the Multiracial Movement's voice and at the political controversies that attend the notion of multiracialism in academic and popular literature, internet discourse, census debates, and discourse by and about pop culture celebrities. The work discusses how multiracialism, hybridity, and racial mixing have occurred amidst existing academic discussions of authenticity, community borders, identity politics, the social construction of race, and postmodern fragmentation. How the Multiracial Movement is shaping and transforming collective multiracial identities is also explored.
• Titolo autorizzato: The politics of multiracialism
• ISBN: 0-7914-8476-9; 1-4237-3913-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820368903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II