{"id":2623,"date":"2009-10-29T03:28:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T03:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2017-09-08T12:53:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T12:53:06","slug":"making-multiracials-state-family-and-market-in-the-redrawing-of-the-color-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2623","title":{"rendered":"Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stanford University Press<\/a>
\n2007
\n280 pages
\n3 tables, 2 figures, 4 illustrations.
\nCloth ISBN-10: 0804755450; ISBN-13: 9780804755450
\nPaper ISBN-10: 0804755469; ISBN-13: 9780804755467<\/p>\n

Kimberly McClain DaCosta<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor
\nGallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University
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When in 1997 golfer Tiger Woods<\/a> described his racial identity on Oprah as \u201ccablinasian,\u201d it struck many as idiosyncratic. But by 2003, a New York Time<\/em>s article declared the arrival of \u201cGeneration E.A.\u201d\u2014the ethnically ambiguous. Multiracial had become a recognizable social category for a large group of Americans.<\/p>\n

Making Multiracials<\/em> tells the story of the social movement that emerged around mixed race identity in the 1990s. Organizations for interracial families and mixed race people\u2014groups once loosely organized and only partially aware of each other\u2014proliferated. What was once ignored, treated as taboo, or just thought not to exist quickly became part of the cultural mainstream.<\/p>\n

How did this category of people come together? Why did the movement develop when it did? What is it about \u201cbeing mixed\u201d that constitutes a compelling basis for activism? Drawing on extensive interviews and fieldwork, the author answers these questions to show how multiracials have been \u201cmade\u201d through state policy, family organizations, and market forces.<\/p>\n

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