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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: American mixed race. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©1995 (OCoLC)623860792 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Naomi Zack |
ISBN: | 0847680126 9780847680122 0847680134 9780847680139 |
OCLC Number: | 31377173 |
Description: | xxv, 379 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Five arrows / Susan Clements -- Color fades over time / Brunetta R. Wolfman -- Racelessness / Cecile Ann Lawrence -- "Check the box that best describes you" / Zena Moore -- "What are they?" / Stephen Satris -- From melodrama to the movies / Freda Scott Giles -- The theater of identity / Teresa Kay Williams -- The go-between people / Carol Roh Spaulding. The Hawaiian alternative to the one-drop rule / F. James Davis -- Some kind of Indian / M. Annette Jaimes -- Exploring the social construction of race / Abby L. Ferber -- Therapeutic perspectives on biracial identity formation and internalized oppression / Helena Jia Hershel -- Grassroots advocacy / Susan R. Graham -- Testimony of the Association of MultiEthnic Americans / Carlos A. Fernández -- Multiracial identity assertion in the sociopolitical context of primary education / Jennifer Clancy -- Yankee imperialism and imperialist nostalgia / Mariella Squire-Hakey. The multiracial contributions to the psychological browning of America / Maria P.P. Root -- Made in the USA / David Theo Goldberg -- Mestizo identity / Linda Alcoff -- Race and racism / Debra A. Barrath -- Ethnic transgressions : confessions of an assimilated Jew / Laurie Shrage -- Life after race / Naomi Zack. |
Responsibility: | edited by Naomi Zack. |
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It may be the most important work yet in a movement that could change all our racial discourse in the classrooms, on suburban streets and in the alleys of our cities, in our political debates, and in our innermost understanding of who we are. -- Jorge Garcia, Rutgers University A thought-provoking collection that addresses the concerns of a growing social movement. * Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy * These essays provide interesting and evocative interpretations and analyses of the history of American understandings of race. * Humanity & Society * A valuable aid for anyone doing serious research on the meanings of race in the American context, and . . . a valuable educational resource for students of the subject as well. -- Lewis R. Gordon, Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies, University of Connecticut Read more...


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