{"id":3996,"date":"2009-12-22T04:37:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T04:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2011-11-14T02:42:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T02:42:55","slug":"beyond-black-biracial-identity-in-america-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3996","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Book Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/ps.psychiatryonline.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/54\/5\/751\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Book Review)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ps.psychiatryonline.org\" target=\"_blank\">Pychiatric Services<\/a><br \/>\nMay 2003<br \/>\nVolume 54<br \/>\nPage 751<br \/>\nPublished by The American Psychiatric Association<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maureen Slade<\/strong>, R.N., M.S., Director of Psychiatry<br \/>\nNorthwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brendan Slade-Smith<\/strong><br \/>\nIllinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1911\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong>by Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma; Thousand Oaks, California, Sage Publications, 2002, 178 pages.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who is black today, and who will be black tomorrow? <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.las.uic.edu\/depts\/soc\/kerry-ann-rockquemore-3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry Ann Rockquemore<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.vt.edu\/people\/Brunsma.html\" target=\"_blank\">David L. Brunsma<\/a>, two sociologists, decided to initiate a research project to study this complicated and highly controversial question, in part to provide sorely needed empirical data to facilitate informed discussions on multiracialism. The authors also hope that their book can be used as a resource to guide decisions about the inclusion of a multiracial category in the 2010 census. Rockquemore and Brunsma chose to focus specifically on individuals who have one black and one white parent.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1911\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America<\/a><\/em> is composed of six chapters and is easy reading, while at the same time being intellectually stimulating and challenging. The first chapter lays the groundwork for explaining why it is necessary to study biracial identity formation in a scholarly fashion. This chapter includes a straightforward discussion of the role of slavery, the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8220;one-drop&#8221; rule<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Crow_Laws\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Crow laws<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_Rights_Movement_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">civil rights era<\/a> in the rigid categorization of blacks as a racial category in the United States. However, the most fascinating discussion is the identification and in-depth discussion of possible biracial identities&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/ps.psychiatryonline.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/54\/5\/751\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Book Review) Pychiatric Services May 2003 Volume 54 Page 751 Published by The American Psychiatric Association Maureen Slade, R.N., M.S., Director of Psychiatry Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago Brendan Slade-Smith Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America by Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma; Thousand Oaks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,33,8,6940,394,20],"tags":[1609,157,158,106,1608],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-census","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-brendan-slade-smith","tag-david-brunsma","tag-david-l-brunsma","tag-kerry-ann-rockquemore","tag-maureen-slade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","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=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}