{"id":2227,"date":"2009-10-18T18:35:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T18:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2013-02-09T00:57:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T00:57:44","slug":"light-bright-and-damned-near-white-biracial-and-triracial-culture-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2227","title":{"rendered":"Light, Bright, and Damned Near White: Biracial and Triracial Culture in America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Light, Bright, and Damned Near White: Biracial and Triracial Culture in America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Praeger Publishers an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group<\/a>
\n2009-03-20
\n168 pages
\nTrim Size: 6 1\/8 x 9 1\/4
\nHardcover ISBN: 0-275-98954-2; ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98954-5<\/p>\n

Stephanie Rose Bird<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The election of America’s first biracial president brings the question dramatically to the fore. What does it mean to be biracial or tri-racial in the United States today? Anthropologist Stephanie Bird takes us into a world where people are struggling to be heard, recognized, and celebrated for the racial diversity one would think is the epitome of America’s melting pot persona. But being biracial or tri-racial brings unique challenges – challenges including prejudice, racism and, from within racial groups, colorism. Yet America is now experiencing a multiracial baby boom, with at least three states logging more multiracial baby births than any other race aside from Caucasians.\u00a0 As the Columbia Journalism Review<\/em> reported, American demographics are no longer black and white. In truth, they are a blended, difficult-to-define shade of brown.<\/p>\n

Bird shows us the history of biracial and tri-racial people in the United States, and in European families and events. She presents the personal traumas and victories of those who struggle for recognition and acceptance in light of their racial backgrounds, including celebrities such as golf expert Tiger Woods, who eventually quit trying to describe himself as Cablanasin, a mix including Asian and African American. \u00a0Bird examines current events, including the National Mixed Race Student Conference<\/em>, and the push to dub this Generation MIX.\u00a0 And she examines how American demographics, government, and society are changing overall as a result.\u00a0 This work includes a guide to tracing your own racial roots.
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\nTable of Contents:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter I: Premixed Pre-measured: Populace of the New World.
\nChapter II: Too Light to be Black, Too Dark to be White: who is passing for what?
\nChapter III Tan Territory: eparating Fact, Fiction and Fantasy.
\nChapter IV: Some of Americas Best Known Biracials and Triracials Across History.
\nChapter V: Bricolage: Constructed Identities of Les Gens de Couleur Libre and Cane River Negroes
\nChapter VI: From Italian explorers to Sicilian Contandini and Biracial Royals: the Mixed Race Experience as Illustrated by the Italian Diaspora.
\nChapter VIII: When Things Really Go Wrong: Australia’s Black\/White Debacle.
\nChapter IX: Profiles of Triumph and Courage.
\nChapter X: Current events: In Government, On Campus, the Internet and in the News.
\nChapter XI: Tool Box for Change\/Conclusions<\/p>\n

About the Author:<\/strong>
\nStephanie Rose Bird<\/a> is an independent scholar and anthropologist. She is herself tri-racial, and has been interviewed on the topic by media including ABC, National Public Radio, and the Public Broadcast System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Light, Bright, and Damned Near White: Biracial and Triracial Culture in America Praeger Publishers an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group 2009-03-20 168 pages Trim Size: 6 1\/8 x 9 1\/4 Hardcover ISBN: 0-275-98954-2; ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98954-5 Stephanie Rose Bird The election of America’s first biracial president brings the question dramatically to the fore. What does it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,17,5113,20],"tags":[589,590,592,105,593],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-triracial","category-usa","tag-greenwood-publishing-group","tag-praeger-publishers","tag-stephanie-rose-bird","tag-tiger-woods","tag-tri-racial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","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=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}