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The Multiracial Experience
Racial Borders as the New Frontier

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512 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
How might a multiracial concept dismantle our negative construction of race? How do we redefine `ethnicity' when `race' is less central to the definition? The Multiracial Experience challenges current theoretical and political conceptualizations of race using the multiracial experience of individuals as a tool for examining these and other questions. Each contribution opens with a personal sketch of the multiracial experience. Topics explored in the book include: the differences between race and ethnicity; colour, gender and sexuality in a multiracial context; and ethnicity and its role in identity formation.
Maria P P Root
The Multiracial Experience
Racial Borders as a Significant Frontier in Race Relations

 
 
PART ONE: HUMAN RIGHTS
Maria P P Root
A Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People
Carlos A Fernández
Government Classification of Multiracial/Multiethnic People
Susan R Graham
The Real World
Deborah A Ramirez
Multiracial Identity in a Color-Conscious World
Ruth G McRoy and Christine C Iijima Hall
Transracial Adoptions
In Whose Best Interest?

 
Cynthia L Nakashima
Voices from the Movement
Approaches to Multiraciality

 
 
PART TWO: IDENTITY
Michael C Thornton
Hidden Agendas, Identity Theories, and Multiracial People
G Reginald Daniel
Black and White Identity in the New Millenium
Unsevering the Ties That Bind

 
Naomi Zack
On Being and Not-Being Black and Jewish
Jan R Weisman
An `Other' Way of Life
The Empowerment of Alterity in the Interracial Individual

 
 
PART THREE: BLENDING AND FLEXIBILITY
Lillian Comas-Díaz
LatiNegra
Mental Health Issues of African Latinas

 
Teresa Kay Williams
Race as Process
Reassessing the `What Are You?' Encounters of Biracial Individuals

 
Lynda D Field
Piecing Together the Puzzle
Self-Concept and Group Identity in Biracial Black/White Youth

 
Rebecca Chiyoko King and Kimberly McClain DaCosta
Changing Face, Changing Race
The Remaking of Race in the Japanese American and African American Communities

 
Brian Chol Soo Standen
Without a Template
The Biracial Korean/White Experience

 
 
PART FOUR: GENDER AND SEXUAL IDENTITY
George Kitahara Kich
In the Margins of Sex and Race
Difference, Marginality, and Flexibility

 
Karen Maeda Allman
(Un)Natural Boundaries
Mixed Race, Gender, and Sexuality

 
Francine Winddance Twine
Heterosexual Alliances
The Romantic Management of Racial Identity

 
Caroline A Streeter
Ambiguous Bodies
Locating Black/White Women in Cultural Representations

 
 
PART FIVE: MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
Nancy G Brown and Ramona E Douglass
Making the Invisible Visible
The Growth of Community Network Organizations

 
Ronald David Glass and Kendra R Wallace
Challenging Race and Racism
A Framework for Educators

 
Teresa Kay Williams et al
Being Different Together in the University Classroom
Multiracial Identity as Transgressive Education

 
Francis Wardle
Multicultural Education
 
PART SIX: THE NEW MILLENIUM
Christine C Iijima Hall
2001
A Race Odyssey

 

Maria P. P. Root

Maria P. P. Root, Ph.D., born in Manila, Philippines, grew up in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from the University of California at Riverside in 1977 with degrees in Psychology and Sociology. She subsequently attended Claremont University in Claremont, California receiving her Master’s degree in Cognitive Psychology in 1979. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1983 with an emphasis in minority mental health.... More About Author

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