{"id":10987,"date":"2010-12-24T04:52:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T04:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10987"},"modified":"2010-12-24T16:06:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T16:06:21","slug":"making-multiracials-state-family-and-market-in-the-redrawing-of-the-color-line-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10987","title":{"rendered":"Making Multiracials: State, Family, And Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line [Book Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreelibrary.com\/Making+Multiracials%3a+State%2c+Family%2c+And+Market+in+the+Redrawing+of...-a0224711359\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Making Multiracials: State, Family, And Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line [Book Review]<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Black Scholar<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreelibrary.com\/The+Black+Scholar\/2010\/March\/22-p51917\" target=\"_blank\">2010-03-22<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/yharris\/AlexesHarris.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alexes Harris<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\nUniversity of Washington<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=2623\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line<\/em><\/a>, by Kimberly McClain DaCosta (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007; $30.95, paper, 280 pp; ISBN 10 0-80475546-9).<\/p>\n<p>THIS THOUGHT-PROVOKING book addresses several interesting and important questions about the relatively recent emergence of a multiracial movement in the United States. In Making Multiracials, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/gallatin\/about\/bios\/kimberly_dacosta.html\" target=\"_blank\">DaCosta<\/a> explores a unique racial and ethnic project in the making and asks how and why has a group of people who have been largely invisible to and isolated from one another mobilized for a new census classification? Using a purposively drawn sample of 62 individuals including those who have mixed-race ancestry and those who are in mixed-race relationships, and ethnographic observations of group activities and events around multiracial identity, DaCosta finds that mixed-race individuals become members of multiracial organizations for a sense of belonging, a safe space, and to reflect on their shared experiences&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreelibrary.com\/Making+Multiracials%3a+State%2c+Family%2c+And+Market+in+the+Redrawing+of...-a0224711359\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making Multiracials: State, Family, And Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line [Book Review] The Black Scholar 2010-03-22 Alexes Harris, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Washington Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line, by Kimberly McClain DaCosta (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007; $30.95, paper, 280 pp; ISBN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,394],"tags":[4791,4084,181,1977],"class_list":["post-10987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-alexes-harris","tag-kimberly-dacosta","tag-kimberly-mcclain-dacosta","tag-the-black-scholar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987","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=10987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}