Reproducing Race : The Paradox of Generation Mix / Stephen Chilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chilton, Stephen, Author.

Series:

GSIS Monograph Series in World Affairs Series

GSIS Monograph Series in World Affairs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Is postraciality just around the corner? How realistic are the often-heard pronouncements that mixed-race identity is leading the United States to its postracial future? In his provocative analysis, Rainier Spencer illuminates the assumptions that multiracial ideology in fact shares with concepts of both white supremacy and antiblackness. Spencer links the mulatto past with the mulatto present in order to plumb the contours of the nation's mulatto future. He argues cogently, and forcefully, that the deconstruction of race promised by the American Multiracial Identity Movement will remain an illusion of wishful thinking unless we truly address the racist baggage that serves tenaciously to conserve the present racial order.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

Part 1 The Mulatto Past

2 The Mixed-Race Background

3 Of Tragic Mulattoes and Marginal Men

4 Mulatto Writers on Marginality

5 Imitations of Life

6 Rejecting a Shared Past

Part 2 The Mulatto Present

7 Postraciality, Multiraciality, and Antiblackness

8 Resurrecting Old Myths of Mulatto Marginality

9 The False Promise of Racial Bridging

10 Assessing the New Millennium Marginal Man

Part 3 The Mulatto Future

11 Whither Multiracial Militancy?

12 Conserving the Racial Order

13 Mulatto (and White) Writers on Deconstructing Race

14 Beyond Generation Mix

Bibliography

Index

About the Book

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)

ISBN:

1-68585-127-4

OCLC:

1334344623