Shades of gray : writing the new American multiracialism /

In Shades of Gray, Molly Littlewood McKibbin offers a social and literary history of multiracialism in the twentieth-century United States. She examines the African American and white racial binary in contemporary multiracial literature to reveal the tensions and struggles of multiracialism in Ameri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McKibbin, Molly Littlewood (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Series:	Borderlands and transcultural studies.
Subjects:	American literature > 21st century > History and criticism. Racially mixed people in literature. Race relations in literature. Race in literature. Racially mixed people > Race identity > United States. United States > Race relations > History. HISTORY / United States / General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Race and Mixed Race in the United States
1. "What Are You, Anyway?": The Social Context of Racial Identity
2. Wonders of the Invisible Race: Negotiating Whiteness
"Black Like Me": Negotiating Blackness
4. Mixed Ethnicity: Multiracialism as Multicultural Identity
Conclusion: The (Continuing) Work of Multiracial Literature
Notes
Bibliography
Index.