New faces in a changing America : multiracial identity in the 21st century / edited by Loretta I. Winters, Herman L. DeBose.

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"New Faces in a Changing America is a comprehensive, penetrating, authoritative, and provocative examination of what it means to be multiracial in this country. With contributions by the leading thinkers, activists, and researchers on the subject, it admirably links theory and the powerful lived experiences of mixed-race people. This book will be the most important reference source on the subject for many years."--James P. Allen, California State University, Northridge New Faces in a Changing America examines the multiracial experience, its history and the political issues and conseq.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

pt. 1. Race as a social construction. 1. Five mixed-race identities : from relic to revolution / Maria P.P. Root -- 2. The new multiracialism : an affirmation of or an end to race as we know it? / Mary Thierry Texeira -- pt. 2. The multiracial movement. 3. New faces, old faces : counting the multiracial population past and present / Ann Morning -- 4 Multiracial identity : from personal problem to public issue / Kimberly McClain DaCosta -- 5. From civil rights to the multiracial movement / Kim M. Williams -- 6. Census 2000 : assessments in significance / Rainier Spencer -- 7. Evolution of multiracial organizations : where we have been and where we are going / Nancy G. Brown and Ramona E. Douglass -- pt. 3. Racial/ethnic groups in America and beyond. 8. The dilemma of biracial people of African American descent / Herman L. DeBose and Loretta I. Winters -- 9. Check all that apply : trends and prospectives among Asian-descent multiracials / Teresa Williams-Leʹon -- 10. Beyond mestizaje : the future of race in America / Gregory Velazco y Trianosky -- 11. Colonization, cultural imperialism, and the social construction of American Indian mixed-blood identity / Karren Baird-Olson -- 12. "Race," "ethnicity," and "culture" in Hawaiʻi : the myth of the "model minority" state / Laura Desfor Edles -- 13. Multiracial identity in global perspective : the United States, Brazil, and South Africa / G. Reginald Daniel -- pt. 4. Race, gender, and hierarchy. 14. Does multiraciality lighten? Me-too ethnicity and the whiteness trap / Paul Spickard -- 15. The hazards of visibility : "biracial" women, media images, and narratives of identity / Caroline A. Streeter -- 16. Masculine multiracial comedians / Darby Li Po Price -- pt. 5. Special topics. 17. Gang affiliation and self-esteem : the effects of a mixed-heritage identity / Patricia O'Donnell Brummett and Loretta I. Winters -- 18. Black/white interracial couples and the beliefs that help them to bridge the racial divide / Kristyan M. Kouri -- Epilogue : The multiracial movement : harmony and discord / Loretta I. Winters.

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