Racially Mixed People in America
SAGE Publications, Inc.
1992
400 pages
Paperback ISBN: 9780803941021
Edited by Maria P. P. Root
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.
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