The Politics of Multiracialism

Trenchju

Description

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.

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Introduction
Heather M. Dalmage

Part One: Context of the Multiracial Movement

1. All in the Family: The Familial Roots of Racial Divisions
Kimberly McClain DaCosta

2. Defending the Creation of Whiteness: White Supremacy and the Threat of Interracial Sexuality
Abby L. Ferber

3. Racial Redistricting: Expanding the Boundaries of Whiteness
Charles A. Gallagher

4. Linking the Civil Rights and Multiracial Movements
Kim M. Williams

Part Two: Discourses of the Multiracial Movement

5. Beyond Pathology and Cheerleading: Insurgency, Dissolution, and Complicity in the Multiracial Idea
Rainier Spencer

6. Deconstructing Tiger Woods: The Promise and Pitfalls of Multiracial Identity
Kerry Ann Rockquemore

7. Multirace.com: Multiracial Cyberspace
Erica Chito Childs

8. "I Prefer to Speak of Culture": White Mothers of Multiracial Children
Terri A. Karis

Part Three: Lessons from the Multiracial Movement

9. Model Majority? The Struggle for Identity among Multiracial Japanese Americans
Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain

10. Transracial Adoption: Refocusing Upstream
Barbara Katz Rothman

11. Protecting Racial Comfort, Protecting White Privilege
Heather M. Dalmage

12. Ideology of the Multiracial Movement: Dismantling the Color Line and Disguising White Supremacy?
Eileen T. Walsh

List of Contributors

Index

Sujets

• Sociology
• Ethnic studies

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791484760
• Langue: English

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the politics of MULTIRACIALISM

c h a l l e n g i n g r a c i a l t h i n k i n g

HEATHER M. DALMAGE editor

THE POLITICS OF MULTIRACIALISM

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The p o l i t i c s of m u l t i r a c i a l i s m

Challenging Racial Thinking

Edited by Heather M. Dalmage

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Published by S U N Y P , A TATE NIVERSITY OF EW ORK RESS LBANY

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The politics of multiracialism : challenging racial thinking / edited by Heather M. Dalmage. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-6153-X (acid-free paper)—ISBN 0-7914-6154-8 (pbk.: acid-free paper) 1. United States—Race relations. 2. Racially mixed people—Race identity— United States. 3. Race awareness—United States. 4. Ethnicity—United States. 5. Racism—United States. 6. Racially mixed people—United States—Social conditions. 7. Social movements—United States. I. Dalmage, Heather M., 1965–

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To my beautiful children,

Mahalia and Owen

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Acknowledgments

CONTENTS

Introduction Heather M. Dalmage

Part I: Context of the Multiracial Movement

1 All in the Family: The Familial Roots of Racial Division Kimberly McClain DaCosta

2 Defending the Creation of Whiteness: White Supremacy and the Threat of Interracial Sexuality Abby L. Ferber

3 Racial Redistricting: Expanding the Boundaries of Whiteness Charles A. Gallagher

4 Linking the Civil Rights and Multiracial Movements Kim M. Williams

Part II: Discourses of the Multiracial Movement

5 Beyond Pathology and Cheerleading: Insurgency, Dissolution, and Complicity in the Multiracial Idea Rainier Spencer

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6 Deconstructing Tiger Woods: The Promise and the Pitfalls of Multiracial Identity Kerry Ann Rockquemore

7 Multirace.com: Multiracial Cyberspace Erica Chito Childs

8 “I Prefer to Speak of Culture”: White Mothers of Multiracial Children Terri A. Karis

Part III: Lessons from the Multiracial Movement

9 Model Majority? The Struggle for Identity among Multiracial Japanese Americans Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain

10 Transracial Adoption: Refocusing Upstream Barbara Katz Rothman

11 Protecting Racial Comfort, Protecting White Privilege Heather M. Dalmage

12 Ideology of the Multiracial Movement: Dismantling the Color Line and Disguising White Supremacy? Eileen T. Walsh

List of Contributors

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book would not have been possible without the engaging insights (and unending patience) of the contributing authors. I would like to particularly thank Barbara Katz Rothman who continues to provide mentorship and friendship. The early support of Clarence Wood and Terry Johnson at the Human Relations Foundation of Chicago, Lucreticia Bailey at the Chicago Council on Urban Affairs, and the Institute for Metropolitan Affairs and the Center for New Deal Studies at Roosevelt University were central to making this book a reality. The Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and the St. Clair Drake Center for African American Studies have also provided neces- sary resources to complete this project. I would like to thank a few individuals who helped in various ways to bring this book to completion: Anna Stange, Lionel G. Trepanier, DaShelle Frazier, Lutricia Johnson, Cedtrice Baker, Bertha Cousins, Emilia Anton, Jason Cook, Andy Lowry. A special thanks to Dorothy Trepanier for care- fully reading the entire text in very short time. Thanks also to the anony- mous reviewers who gave detailed and helpful criticism. To the editors at SUNY Press, thanks. Ronald Helfrich saw the potential of this project and Nancy Ellegate guided it through to completion. In addition, thanks, as always, to everyone in my family for their unending support. Thanks to Philip for his continued friendship, support, and love. Thanks to my baby- girl, Mahalia for asking so many questions. Owen, I am looking forward to your insights.

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