{"id":1040,"date":"2013-03-31T00:56:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T00:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2017-07-30T22:47:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T22:47:24","slug":"challenging-multiracial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"Challenging Multiracial Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rienner.com\/title\/Challenging_Multiracial_Identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Challenging Multiracial Identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rienner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lynne Rienner Publishers<\/a><br \/>\n2006<br \/>\n135 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 978-1-58826-424-4<\/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=\"http:\/\/www.rienner.com\/title\/Challenging_Multiracial_Identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41KYZF23JHL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is multiracialism\u2014and what are the theoretical consequences and practical costs of asserting a multiracial identity? Arguing that the multiracial movement bolsters, rather than subverts, traditional categories of race, Rainier Spencer critically assesses current scholarship in support of multiracial identity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction: Expecting Excellence in the Field of Multiracial Identity Studies<\/li>\n<li>Projection as Reality: Three Authors, Three Studies, One Problem<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychobabble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Psychobabble<\/a>, Socioblather, and the Reinscription of the Pathology Paradigm<\/li>\n<li>White Mothers, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Loving<\/em> Legend<\/a>, and Manufacturing a Biracial Baby Boom<\/li>\n<li>Distinction Without Difference: The Insidious Argument for First-Generation Black\/White Multiracial Identity<\/li>\n<li>The Road Forward<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is multiracialism\u2014and what are the theoretical consequences and practical costs of asserting a multiracial identity? Arguing that the multiracial movement bolsters, rather than subverts, traditional categories of race, Rainier Spencer critically assesses current scholarship in support of multiracial identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,125,8,17,26,20],"tags":[70,307,45],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-politics","category-usa","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-lynne-rienner-publishers","tag-rainier-spencer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","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=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54699,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/54699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}