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New Faces in a Changing America

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Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century

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Edited by Loretta I. Winters, Herman L. DeBose
Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Release Date: April 14, 2003
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 432

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"New Faces in a Changing America is a comprehensive, penetrating, authoritative, and provocative examination of what it means to be multiracial in this country. With contributions by the leading thinkers, activists, and researchers on the subject, it admirably links theory and the powerful lived experiences of mixed-race people. This book will be the most important reference source on the subject for many years." -- James P. Allen, California State University, Northridge "Not since the work of Root has there been as important of an anthology as New Faces in a Changing America. This book explores the reality of multiracial people from a variety of theoretical and conceptual perspectives. It is a must read for anybody who want to understand the multiracial movement and the multiracial people who lead that movement. Any teacher who wants to introduce the concept of "multiraciality" to his/her class must also have this book. Winters and Debose are to be commended for putting together this first-rate academic examination of an important social phenomenon." -- George Yancey, University of North Texas How multiracial people identify themselves can have major consequences on their positions in their families, communities and society. Even the U.S. Census has recognized the rapidly increasing numbers of those who consider themselves multiracial, adding a new racial category to the 2000 Census form: two or more races. New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century examines the multiracial experience, its history and the political issues and consequences surrounding biracial and multiracial identity, bringing together top names in the field to give readers cutting edge views and insights gained from contemporary research. This important new text follows the trail blazed by Maria Root, who contributes its opening chapter. An introduction places the issues of multiracial identity into context via a discussion of U.S. Census data and debates, providing an overview of the varied readings to come covering such topics as: Race as a social, rather than biological, construction The Multiracial Movement Racial/Ethnic Groups in America and Beyond Race, Gender & Hierarchy Gang Affiliation and Self-Esteem Black/White Interracial Couples and the Beliefs that Help Them to Bridge the Racial Divide The book concludes with "The Multiracial Movement: Harmony and Discord," by co-editor Loretta Winters, an epilogue putting the readings into perspective according to three models in the multiracial identity literature: the Multiracial Movement model, the Counter Multiracial movements model and the Ethnic Movement model. Timely and comprehensive in its range of topics, this is an important resource for many audiences: students in Ethnic Studies, Race Relations and related courses; human service professionals including psychologists, counselors, social workers and school personnel and, importantly, multiracial individuals themselves.

Loretta I. Winters possesses a Ph.D. in Sociology and is biracial. She has co-published and presented chapters and papers with her co-editor Herman L. DeBose on ongoing research on multiracial identity at several conferences and was instrumental in locating the Multiracial Americans of Southern California's 10th Annual Conference at California State University, Northridge, where she is a professor in the Department of Sociology. As a result of their research activities and paper presentations, Drs. Winters and DeBose have formed networks with other scholars who conduct research in the area of multiraciality and/or are politically active and supportive of multiracial people. Herman L. DeBose possesses a Ph.D. in Social Welfare, is married to a woman of another race, and has four biracial children. He has co-published and presented chapters and papers with his co-editor Loretta I. Winters on ongoing research on multiracial identity at several conferences and was instrumental in locating the Multiracial Americans of Southern California's 10th Annual Conference at California State University, Northridge, where he is a professor in the Department of Sociology. As a result of their research activities and paper presentations, Drs. DeBose and Winters have formed networks with other scholars who conduct research in the area of multiraciality and/or are politically active and supportive of multiracial people.

Forward Introduction - Herman L. DeBose Acknowledgments PART I: RACE AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION 1. Five Mixed Race Identities: From Relic to Revolution - Maria P. P. Root 2. The New Multiracialism: An Affirmation or an End to Race as we Know It? - Mary Thierry Texeira PART II: THE MULTIRACIAL MOVEMENT 3. New Faces, Old Faces: Counting the Multiracial Population - Ann Morning 4. Multiracial Identity: From Personal Problem to Public Issue - Kimberly McClain DaCosta 5. From Civil Rights to the Multiracial Movement - Kim M. Williams 6. Census 2000: Assessments in Significance - Rainier Spencer 7. Evolution of Multiracial Organizations: Where We Have Been & Where We Are Going - Nancy G. Brown & Ramona E. Douglas PART III: RACIAL/ETHNIC GROUPS IN AMERICA & BEYOND 8. The Dilemma of Biracial People of African American Descent - Herman L. DeBose & Loretta L. Winters 9. Check All That Apply: Trends & Perspectives Among Asian Descent Multiracials - Teresa Williams-Leon 10. Beyond Mestizaje: The Future of Race in America - Gregory Velazco y Trianosky 11. Colonization, Cultural Imperialism, and the Social Construction of American Indian Mixed Blood Identity - Karren Baird-Olson 12. "Race," "Ethnicity," and "Culture" in Hawai'i: The Myth of the "Model Minority" State - Laura Desfor Edles 13. Multiracial Identity in Global Perspective: The United States, Brazil, and South Africa - G. Reginald Daniel PART IV: RACE, GENDER & HIERARCHY 14. Does Multiraciality Lighten? Me-too Ethnicity & the Whiteness Trap - Paul Spickard 15. The Hazards of Visibility: "Biracial Women," Media Images, and Narratives of Identity - Caroline A. Streeter 16. Masculine Multiracial Comedians - Darby Li Po Price PART V: SPECIAL TOPICS 17. Gang Affiliation & Self-Esteem: The Effects of a Mixed Heritage Identity - Patricia O'Donnell Brummett & Loretta I. Winters 18. Black/White Interracial Couples & the Beliefs That Help Them to Bridge the Racial Divide - Kristyan M. Kouri Epilogue: The Multiracial Movement: Harmony & Discord - Loretta I. Winters Index About the Editors About the Contributors

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