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Spencer, Rainier

Challenging Multiracial Identity / Rainier Spencer. - 1 online resource (135 p.)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Expecting Excellence in the Field of Multiracial Identity Studies -- 1 Projection as Reality: Three Authors,Three Studies, One Problem -- 2 Psychobabble, Socioblather, and the Reinscription of the Pathology Paradigm -- 3 White Mothers, the Loving Legend, and Manufacturing a Biracial Baby Boom -- 4 Distinction Without Difference: The Insidious Argument for First-Generation Black/White Multiracial Identity -- 5 The Road Forward -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book

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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.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9781626372986

Standard No.: 10.1515/9781626372986 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Race--Social aspects--United States--United States--USA.
Race--Social aspects--USA.--United States
Race--Social aspects--United States.
Race--Social aspects.
Racially mixed people--Race identity--United States.
Racially mixed people--Race identity--United States.
Racially mixed people--Race identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.

LC Class. No.: HT1523

Dewey Class. No.: 305.8