American Mixed Race: The Culture of MicrodiversityNaomi Zack This exciting multidisciplinary collection brings together twenty-two original essays by scholars on the cutting edge of racial theory, who address both the American concept of race and the specific problems experienced by those who do not fit neatly into the boxes society requires them to check. |
Contents
Five Arrows | 3 |
Color Fades Over Time | 13 |
Racelessness | 25 |
Check the Box that Best Describes You | 39 |
What Are They? | 53 |
Art | 61 |
From Melodrama to the Movies The Tragic Mulatto as a Type Character | 63 |
The Theater of Identity MultiRace and Representation of Eurasians and Afroasians | 79 |
Testimony of the Association of MultiEthnic Americans Before the Subcommittee on Census Statistics and Postal Personnel of the US House of Repre... | 191 |
Multiracial Identity Assertion in the Sociopolitical Context of Primary Education | 211 |
Yankee Imperialism and Imperialist Nostalgia A View from the Inside | 221 |
Identity Theory | 229 |
The Multiracial Contribution to the Psychological Browning of America | 231 |
Made in the USA Racial Mixing n Matching | 237 |
Mestizo Identity | 257 |
Race and Racism Marginalization within the Margins | 279 |
The GoBetween People Representations of Mixed Race in TwentiethCentury American | 97 |
Social Science | 113 |
The Hawaiian Alternative to the OneDrop Rule | 115 |
Some Kind of Indian On Race Eugenics and MixedBloods | 133 |
Exploring the Social Construction of Race Sociology and the Study of Interracial Relationships | 155 |
Therapeutic Perspectives on Biracial Identity Formation and Internalized Oppression | 169 |
Public Policy | 183 |
Grassroots Advocacy | 185 |
Ethnic Transgressions Confessions of an Assimilated Jew | 287 |
Life After Race | 297 |
Notes | 309 |
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About the Contributors | 375 |
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