Making Multiracials : State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line / Kimberly McClain DaCosta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DaCosta, Kimberly McClain, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.) : 3 tables, 2 figures, 4 illustrations

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

When in 1997 golfer Tiger Woods described his racial identity on Oprah as "cablinasian," it struck many as idiosyncratic. But by 2003, a New York Times article declared the arrival of "Generation E.A."—the ethnically ambiguous. Multiracial had become a recognizable social category for a large group of Americans. Making Multiracials tells the story of the social movement that emerged around mixed race identity in the 1990s. Organizations for interracial families and mixed race people—groups once loosely organized and only partially aware of each other—proliferated. What was once ignored, treated as taboo, or just thought not to exist quickly became part of the cultural mainstream. How did this category of people come together? Why did the movement develop when it did? What is it about "being mixed" that constitutes a compelling basis for activism? Drawing on extensive interviews and fieldwork, the author answers these questions to show how multiracials have been "made" through state policy, family organizations, and market forces.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables, Figures, and Photos

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 The Making of a Category

3 Becoming a Multiracial Entrepreneur: Four Stories

4 Making Multiracial Families

5 Creating Multiracial Identity and Community

6 Consuming Multiracials

7 Redrawing the Color Line?: The Problems and Possibilities of Multiracial Families and Group Making

Appendix A List of Respondents

Appendix B Methodology

Appendix C Situating Multiracial Group Making in the Literature on Social Movements, Race, and the Work of Pierre Bourdieu

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2633-4

OCLC:

1294426891