More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order [Book Review: Christian] |
More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order [Book Review: Christian]
The Western Journal of Black Studies
Volume 27, Number 4 (2003)
pages 279-280
Mark Christian, Professor & Chair of African & African American Studies
Lehman College, City University of New York
This book comes out the school of thought that advocates for the “multiracial identity” classification in the US. More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order offers a postmodern analysis of “race” and issues a call for the acknowledgement of what can be deemed the multifaceted racialized heritages of many Black peoples located in the African Diaspora. In this sense the book offers little other than what is largely akeady known. Indeed many peoples of African descent do have claim to other heritages. For example it is broadly accepted now that at least two-thirds of African Americans have some Native American and European heritage. However, it is erroneous to run away with this idea as if it is the sole criteria for establishing a “new racial order” based on what is in fact unlikely to have any impact on white supremacy and its continued dominance over the socially constructed “peoples of color.”…
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