{"id":41716,"date":"2015-07-10T15:29:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T15:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41716"},"modified":"2017-04-08T21:55:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T21:55:23","slug":"in-the-shadow-of-race-growing-up-as-a-multiethnic-multicultural-and-multiracial-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41716","title":{"rendered":"In the Shadow of Race: Growing Up As A Multiethnic, Multicultural, and “multiracial” American"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Shadow of Race: Growing Up As A Multiethnic, Multicultural, and “multiracial” American<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Routledge<\/a>
\n1998
\n280 pages
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0805825756<\/p>\n

Teja Arboleda<\/a><\/strong>, President\/Creative Director
\nEntertaining Diversity, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n

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My father’s father was Filipino-Chinese…
\nMy father’s mother was African American-Native American…
\nMy mother’s father was German-Danish…
\nMy mother’s mother was German…
\nI was born in Brooklyn, New York, but I grew up in Japan…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For once it’s not just black and white. In this compelling chronicle of his journey through life as a multicultural and multiethnic American, Teja Arboleda uniquely and personally challenges institutionalized notions of race, culture, ethnicity, and class. Arboleda has presented his story around the United States through his one-man performance-lecture Ethnic Man!<\/em> Now, in this book, he fleshes out the depth of his experience as a culturally and racially mixed American, illustrating throughout the enigma of cultural and racial identity and the American identity crisis.<\/p>\n

To facilitate its use as a course text, In the Shadow of Race<\/em> is offered with a Teacher’s Guide written by Christine Clark. Topics for discussion include:<\/p>\n