{"id":1148,"date":"2009-09-27T23:39:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T23:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2015-07-25T02:54:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T02:54:59","slug":"the-politics-of-multiracialism-challenging-racial-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Multiracialism: Challenging Racial Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Politics of Multiracialism: Challenging Racial Thinking<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/a>
\nState University of New York Press<\/a>
\nJune 2004
\n263 pages
\nHardcover ISBN-10: 0-7914-6153-X; ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6153-2
\nPaperback ISBN-10: 0-7914-6154-8; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6154-9<\/p>\n

Editor:<\/p>\n

Heather M. Dalmage<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology and Director
\nMansfield Institute for Social Justice
\nRoosevelt University<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A provocative analysis of current thought and discourse on multiracialism.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the first book to critically look at the political issues and interests surrounding the broadly defined Multiracial Movement and at what is being said about multiracialism. Many of the multiracial family organizations that exist across the United States developed socially, ideologically, and politically during the conservative Reagan years. While members of the Multiracial Movement differ widely in their political views, the concept of multiracialism has been taken up by conservative politicians in ways that are often inimical to the interests of traditionally defined minorities.<\/p>\n

Contributors look at the Multiracial Movement’s voice and at the political controversies that attend the notion of multiracialism in academic and popular literature, internet discourse, census debates, and discourse by and about pop culture celebrities. The work discusses how multiracialism, hybridity, and racial mixing have occurred amidst existing academic discussions of authenticity, community borders, identity politics, the social construction of race, and postmodern fragmentation. How the Multiracial Movement is shaping and transforming collective multiracial identities is also explored.<\/p>\n

Contributors include Erica Chito Childs<\/a>, Kimberly McClain DaCosta<\/a>, Heather M. Dalmage<\/a>, Abby L. Ferber<\/a>, Charles A. Gallagher<\/a>, Terri A. Karis<\/a>, Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain<\/a>, Kerry Ann Rockquemore<\/a>, Barbara Katz Rothman<\/a>, Rainier Spencer<\/a>, Eileen T. Walsh<\/a>, and Kim M. Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n

Part One: Context of the Multiracial Movement<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. All in the Family: The Familial Roots of Racial Divisions<\/em>
\nKimberly McClain DaCosta<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Defending the Creation of Whiteness: White Supremacy and the Threat of Interracial Sexuality<\/em>
\nAbby L. Ferber<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Racial Redistricting: Expanding the Boundaries of Whiteness<\/em>
\nCharles A. Gallagher<\/a><\/p>\n

4. Linking the Civil Rights and Multiracial Movements
\n<\/em>Kim M. Williams<\/a><\/p>\n

Part Two: Discourses of the Multiracial Movement<\/strong><\/p>\n

5. Beyond Pathology and Cheerleading: Insurgency, Dissolution, and Complicity in the Multiracial Idea<\/em>
\nRainier Spencer<\/a><\/p>\n

6. Deconstructing Tiger Woods: The Promise and Pitfalls of Multiracial Identity<\/em>
\nKerry Ann Rockquemore<\/a><\/p>\n

7. Multirace.com: Multiracial Cyberspace<\/em>
\nErica Chito Childs<\/a><\/p>\n

8. “I Prefer to Speak of Culture”: White Mothers of Multiracial Children
\n<\/em>Terri A. Karis<\/a><\/p>\n

Part Three: Lessons from the Multiracial Movement<\/strong><\/p>\n

9. Model Majority? The Struggle for Identity among Multiracial Japanese Americans<\/em>
\nRebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain<\/a><\/p>\n

10. Transracial Adoption: Refocusing Upstream<\/em>
\nBarbara Katz Rothman<\/a><\/p>\n

11. Protecting Racial Comfort, Protecting White Privilege<\/em>
\nHeather M. Dalmage<\/a><\/p>\n

12. Ideology of the Multiracial Movement: Dismantling the Color Line and Disguising White Supremacy?
\n<\/em>Eileen T. Walsh<\/a><\/p>\n

List of Contributors<\/p>\n

Index<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Politics of Multiracialism: Challenging Racial Thinking State University of New York Press June 2004 263 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 0-7914-6153-X; ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6153-2 Paperback ISBN-10: 0-7914-6154-8; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6154-9 Editor: Heather M. Dalmage, Professor of Sociology and Director Mansfield Institute for Social Justice Roosevelt University A provocative analysis of current thought and discourse on multiracialism. This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,33,8,26,20],"tags":[183,187,184,188,178,179,182,106,71,47,181,45,186,1527,243,185,105],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-books","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-abby-l-ferber","tag-barbara-katz-rothman","tag-charles-a-gallagher","tag-eileen-t-walsh","tag-erica-childs","tag-erica-chito-childs","tag-heather-m-dalmage","tag-kerry-ann-rockquemore","tag-kim-m-williams","tag-kim-williams","tag-kimberly-mcclain-dacosta","tag-rainier-spencer","tag-rebecca-chiyoko-king-oriain","tag-state-university-of-new-york-press","tag-suny-press","tag-terri-a-karis","tag-tiger-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","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=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41926,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/41926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}