{"id":1902,"date":"2009-10-13T15:38:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T15:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2013-04-18T13:55:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T13:55:01","slug":"race-and-mixed-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=1902","title":{"rendered":"Race and Mixed Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Race and Mixed Race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Temple University Press
\n<\/a>October 1993
\n232 pages
\n6×9
\npaper: EAN: 978-1-56639-265-5, ISBN: 1-56639-265-9
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\nNaomi Zack<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Philosophy
\nUniversity of Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n

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

In the first philosophical challenge to accepted racial classifications in the United States, Naomi Zack uses philosophical methods to criticize their logic. Tracing social and historical problems related to racial identity, she discusses why race is a matter of such importance in America and examines the treatment of mixed race in law, society, and literature.<\/p>\n

Zack argues that black and white designations are themselves racist because the concept of race does not have an adequate scientific foundation.<\/strong>\u00a0 The “one drop” rule, originally a rationalization for slavery, persists today even though there have never been “pure” races and most American blacks have “white” genes.<\/p>\n

Exploring the existential problems of mixed race identity, she points out how the bi-racial system in this country generates a special racial alienation for many Americans. Ironically suggesting that we include “gray” in our racial vocabulary, Zack concludes that any racial identity is an expression of bad faith.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Part I: The Existential Analysis<\/strong>
\n1. Introduction: Summary, Method, and Structure
\n2. The Ordinary Concept of Race
\n3. White Family Identity
\n4. Black Family Identity
\n5. Demography and the Identification of the Family
\n6. Mixed-Race Family Identity<\/p>\n

Part II: The History of Mixed Race<\/strong>
\n7. Introduction to the History of Mixed Race
\n8. The Law on Black and White
\n9. Marooned!
\n10. The Harlem Renaissance<\/a>: Cultural Suicide
\n11. Genocidal Images of Mixed Race
\n12. Mulattoes in Fiction
\n13. Alienation<\/p>\n

Part III: The Philosophy of Anti-Race
\n<\/strong>14. Nobility versus Good Faith
\n15. Black, White, and Gray: Words, Words, Words<\/p>\n

Notes
\nSelect Bibliography
\nIndex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Race and Mixed Race Temple University Press October 1993 232 pages 6×9 paper: EAN: 978-1-56639-265-5, ISBN: 1-56639-265-9 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon In the first philosophical challenge to accepted racial classifications in the United States, Naomi Zack uses philosophical methods to criticize their logic. Tracing social and historical problems related to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,8,17,6941,394,20],"tags":[55,56,359,82,358,79],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-philosophy","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-harlem-renaissance","tag-hypodescent","tag-naomi-zack","tag-one-drop-rule","tag-temple-university-press","tag-tragic-mulatto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","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=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}