Racially mixed people in America

Author(s)

• Root, Maria P. P.

Bibliographic Information

Racially mixed people in America

edited by Maria P.P. Root

Sage Publications, c1992

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. 348-369

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Recipient of the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States 1993 Outstanding Book Award America has been the breeding ground of a "biracial baby boom" for the past 25 years. Unfortunately, there has been a dearth of information regarding how racially mixed people identify and view themselves and how they relate to one another. Racially Mixed People in America steadily bridges this gap and offers a comprehensive look at the social and psychological adjustment of mixed-race people, models for identity development, contemporary immigration and marriage patterns, and methodological issues involved in conducting research with mixed-race people, all in the context of America's mixed race past and present. Including contributions by ethnohistorians, psychologists, and sociologists, this powerful volume will provide the reader a tool for examining ideologies surrounding race, race relations, and the role of social science in the deconstruction of race. Racially Mixed People in America is essential reading for researchers and practitioners in cross-cultural studies, psychology, family studies, sociology, and social work. "Racially Mixed People in America is not just a ''feel good'' affirmation of mixed race people. It offers explanations of ''how possibly'' the constructed notions of race operate in our society through an examination of mixed race people from the ''margins'' of psychological and sociological studies to the center of race relation's discourse. This, perhaps, is its greatest contribution." --Amerasia Journal "A compendium of articles on the experiences and identities of racially mixed people, [it] takes a scholarly approach to understanding the issues of racial identity. It is a book we highly recommend for an overview of the psychological implications of the personal conflicts inherent in multiracial identity." --Minority Markets Alert "Maria P. P. Root and her coauthors have performed a service to society in general and to biracial/multiracial people and families in particular. By dispelling myths and showing the biracial/multiracial experience to be a healthy, normal one, the book will help demolish barriers of fear and ignorance and will, hopefully, enable all of us to banish the lingering miasma of obsolete concepts." --Joe Cunningham, The Interracial Club Newsletter "An especially timely and well-documented book. Recommended to mental health professionals who wish to heighten their sensitivity in working with racially mixed people." --Readings: A Journal of Review and Commentary in Mental Health Racially Mixed People in America is an important book, effectively presenting a comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination by ethnohistorians, psychologists and sociologists of America's multiracial past and present.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: RACIAL ECOLOGY Within, Between, and Beyond Race - Maria P P Root The Illogic of American Racial Categories - Paul R Spickard The Human Ecology of Multiracial Identity - Robin L Miller Developmental Pathways - Deborah J Johnson Toward an Ecological Theoretical Formulation of Race Identity in Black/White Biracial Children Mixed Heritage Individuals - Cookie White Stephan Ethnic Identity and Trait Characteristics The Quiet Immigration - Michael C Thornton Foreign Spouses of US Citizens, 1945-1985 Beauty and the Beast - Carla K Bradshaw On Racial Ambiguity PART TWO: RECOVERING THE MULTIRACIAL PAST Passers and Pluralists - G Reginald Daniel Subverting the Racial Divide Blood Quantum - Terry P Wilson Native American Mixed Bloods La Raza and the Melting Pot - Carlos A Fernandez A Comparative Look at Multiethnicity From Dust to Gold - Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde The Vietnamese Amerasian Experience An Invisible Monster - Cynthia L Nakashima The Creation and Denial of Mixed Race People in America PART THREE: WHAT OF THE CHILDREN Back to the Drawing Board - Maria P P Root Methodological Issues in Research on Multiracial People Identity Development in Biracial Children - James H Jacobs Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Ana Mari Cauce et al Social Adjustment of Biracial Youth Negotiating Ethnic Identity - Jewelle Taylor Gibbs and Alice M Hines Issues for Black/White Biracial Adolescents Offspring of Cross-Race and Cross-Ethnic Marriages in Hawaii - Ronald C Johnson Please Choose One - Christine C Iijima Hall Ethnic Identity Choices for Biracial Individuals Interracial Japanese Americans - Amy Iwasaki Mass The Best of Both Worlds or the End of the Japanese American Community? Prism Lives - Teresa Kay Williams Identity of Binational Amerasians The Developmental Process of Asserting a Biracial, Bicultural Identity - George Kitahara Kich PART FOUR: CHALLENGING THE CENSUS Is Multiracial Status Unique? The Personal and Social Experience - Michael C Thornton Coloring Outside the Lines - Christine C Iijima Hall Multicultural Identity and the Death of Stereotypes - Philip Tajitsu Nash Beyond Black and White - G Reginald Daniel The New Multiracial Consciousness From Shortcuts to Solutions - Maria P P Root

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Details

• NCID: BA14093284
• ISBN:
  • 0803941013
  • 0803941021
• LCCN: 91038114
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Newbury Park, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 387 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E184.A1
  • DC20 : 305.8/00973
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Racially mixed people -- United States
  • LCSH : United States -- Population
  • LCSH : United States -- Race relations