{"id":1039,"date":"2009-09-24T19:34:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T19:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2017-07-30T22:46:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T22:46:57","slug":"spurious-issues-race-and-multiracial-identity-politics-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=1039","title":{"rendered":"Spurious Issues: Race And Multiracial Identity Politics In The United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spurious-Issues-Multiracial-Identity-Politics\/dp\/0813336775\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spurious Issues: Race And Multiracial Identity Politics In The United States<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/westviewpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Westview Press<\/a><br \/>\n1999-08-12<br \/>\n240 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN-10: 0813336775; ISBN-13: 978-0813336770<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.unlv.edu\/spencer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rainier Spencer<\/a><\/strong>, Director and Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Nevada, Las Vegas<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spurious-Issues-Multiracial-Identity-Politics\/dp\/0813336775\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51C8EH6H6HL._SX340_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent times have seen the rise of a movement lobbying for explicit recognition of multiracial identity as separate from any other racial category. Factions in this movement have petitioned the government for the addition of a federal multiracial category to the census and to other official forms. While these attempts have as yet been unsuccessful, the potential impact of such a change cannot be overstated. <strong>Rainier Spencer takes up the claims of multiracial activists, subjecting their arguments to a level of scholarly rigor they have heretofore not been required to meet. Demonstrating that the twin justifications for a federal multiracial category\u2014accuracy and self-esteem\u2014are inherently contradictory, Spencer presents an absorbing analysis of race, multirace, and categorization that shakes the very foundations of racial identity on all sides.<\/strong> Spurious Issues is a critical examination of multiracial identity politics in the United States, and of the specific issues surrounding federal racial classification. It is also a book about race generally, an extended argument that invites and challenges its readers to assume a skeptical position in regard to one of the most widely accepted but rarely analyzed components of life in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spurious Issues: Race And Multiracial Identity Politics In The United States Westview Press 1999-08-12 240 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 0813336775; ISBN-13: 978-0813336770 Rainier Spencer, Director and Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies University of Nevada, Las Vegas Recent times have seen the rise of a movement lobbying for explicit recognition of multiracial identity as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,33,8,17,26,20],"tags":[45,1286],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-census","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-politics","category-usa","tag-rainier-spencer","tag-westview-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54698,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/54698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}