Claiming place : biracial young adults of the post-civil rights era / Marion Kilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kilson, Marion, 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiracial people--Race identity--United States.

Multiracial people.

Multiracial people--United States--Social conditions--20th century.

Young adults--United States--Social conditions--20th century.

Young adults.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Born in the 1960s, the middle-class Biracial Americans of this study are part of a transitional cohort between the hidden biracial generations of the past and the visible blended generations of the future. As individuals, they have variously dealt with their ambiguous status in American society; as a generation, they share common existential realities in relation to White culture. During the last decade of the 20th century public awareness of mixed race Americans increased significantly, in no small part because there has been a substantial increase in interracial marriages and offspring since 1960. This study, based on ethnographic interviews, provides an historical overview of the study of Biracial Americans in the social sciences, a sociological profile of project participants, sociocultural discussions of family and race as well as racial identity choices, and examinations of racial realities in adult lives and of recurrent systemic and personal life themes. The textual part of the book demonstrates the diversity of perception and experience regarding race and identity of these biracial young adults. The Epilogue not only reviews major findings pertaining to this transitional generation of Biracial Americans but discusses biraciality and the deconstruction of race in contemporary American society. An extensive bibliography of popular and scholarly sources concludes the book.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Part I. Biracial American Experience in the Post-Civil

Rights Era

Biracial Americans

Biracial Americans and Their Families

Biracial American Identity Choices

Racial Realities in Adult Biracial American Lives

Biracal American Life Themes

Part II. Biracial American Voices

Development of Racial Identities

Childhood Memories of Race

Family Relationships Remembered

Assessments of Biracial American Experiences

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-186) and index.

ISBN:

9798400627033

9780313065071

0313065071

OCLC:

232161542