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American mixed race : the culture of microdiversity

Naomi Zack
This exciting multidisciplinary collection brings together twenty-two original essays by scholars on the cutting edge of racial theory, who address both the American concept of race and the specific problems experienced by those who do not fit neatly into the boxes society requires them to check.
Print Book, English, ©1995
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Md., ©1995
xxv, 379 pages ; 24 cm
9780847680122, 9780847680139, 0847680126, 0847680134
31377173
Five arrows / Susan Clements
Color fades over time / Brunetta R. Wolfman
Racelessness / Cecile Ann Lawrence
"Check the box that best describes you" / Zena Moore
"What are they?" / Stephen Satris
From melodrama to the movies / Freda Scott Giles
The theater of identity / Teresa Kay Williams
The go-between people / Carol Roh Spaulding. The Hawaiian alternative to the one-drop rule / F. James Davis
Some kind of Indian / M. Annette Jaimes
Exploring the social construction of race / Abby L. Ferber
Therapeutic perspectives on biracial identity formation and internalized oppression / Helena Jia Hershel
Grassroots advocacy / Susan R. Graham
Testimony of the Association of MultiEthnic Americans / Carlos A. Fernández
Multiracial identity assertion in the sociopolitical context of primary education / Jennifer Clancy
Yankee imperialism and imperialist nostalgia / Mariella Squire-Hakey. The multiracial contributions to the psychological browning of America / Maria P.P. Root
Made in the USA / David Theo Goldberg
Mestizo identity / Linda Alcoff
Race and racism / Debra A. Barrath
Ethnic transgressions : confessions of an assimilated Jew / Laurie Shrage
Life after race / Naomi Zack