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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dalmage, Heather M., 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiracial people--Race identity--United States.

Multiracial people.

Race awareness--United States.

Race awareness.

Ethnicity--United States.

Ethnicity.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Multiracial people--United States--Social conditions.

Social movements--United States.

Social movements.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791484760

0791484769

9781423739135

1423739132

OCLC:

62348636