Challenging Multiracial Identity |
Challenging Multiracial Identity
Lynne Rienner Publishers
2006
135 pages
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-58826-424-4
Rainier Spencer, Director and Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
What is multiracialism—and what are the theoretical consequences and practical costs of asserting a multiracial identity? Arguing that the multiracial movement bolsters, rather than subverts, traditional categories of race, Rainier Spencer critically assesses current scholarship in support of multiracial identity.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Expecting Excellence in the Field of Multiracial Identity Studies
- Projection as Reality: Three Authors, Three Studies, One Problem
- Psychobabble, Socioblather, and the Reinscription of the Pathology Paradigm
- White Mothers, the Loving Legend, and Manufacturing a Biracial Baby Boom
- Distinction Without Difference: The Insidious Argument for First-Generation Black/White Multiracial Identity
- The Road Forward