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  title info:
    title: Multiracial identity and racial politics in the United States
  name:
    name part: Masuoka, Natalie
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations
  abstract: "While pundits point to multiracial Americans as new evidence of a harmonious ethnic melting pot, in reality mixed race peoples have long existed in the United States. Rather than characterize multiracial Americans as a "new" population, this book argues that instead we should view them as individuals who reflect a new culture of racial identification. Today, identities such as "biracial" or "swirlies" are evoked alongside those more established racial categories of white, black Asian and Latino. What is significant about multiracial identities is that they communicate an alternative viewpoint about race: that a person's preferred self-identification should be used to define a person's race. Yet this definition of race is a distinct contrast to historic norms which has defined race as a category assigned to a person based on certain social rules which emphasized things like phenotype, being "one-drop" of African blood or heritage. In Multiracial Identity and Racial Politics in the United States, Natalie Masuoka catalogues how this cultural shift from assigning race to perceiving race as a product of personal identification came about by tracing events over the course of the twentieth century. Masuoka uses a variety of sources including in-depth interviews, public opinion surveys and census data to understand how certain individuals embrace the agency of self-identification and choose to assert multiracial identities. At the same time, the book shows that the meaning and consequences of multiracial identification can only be understood when contrasted against those who identify as white, black Asian or Latino. An included case study on President Barack Obama also shows how multiracial identity narratives can be strategically used to reduce anti-black bias among voters. Therefore, rather than looking at multiracial Americans as a harbinger of dramatic change for American race relations, this Multiracial Identity and Racial Politics in the United States shows that narr…
  table of contents: Identity choice: changing practices of race and multiracial identification -- Exclusive categories: historical formation of racial classification in the united states -- Advocating for choice: political views of multiracial activists -- Declaring race: understanding the opportunities to self-identify as multiracial -- Implications of racial identity: comparing monoracial and multiracial political attitudes -- In the eye of the beholder: American perceptions of Obama's race -- Conclusion. Multiracial and beyond: racial formation in the twenty-first century -- Appendices. Interview subjects, their organizations, and questions asked -- Washington Post /Kaiser Family Foundation /Harvard University, Race and Ethnicity in 2001: Attitudes, Perceptions, and Experiences (WKH 2001) -- American National Election Study 2008 Time Series Study (ANES) -- Racial Attitudes in America II, Pew Research Center for the People and the Press -- 2010- 2012 Evaluations of Government and Society Survey, Wave 4.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Natalie Masuoka.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Multiracial people
    topic: Race identity
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Race
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Race relations
  subject:
    topic: Race
    topic: Aspect politique
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Relations raciales
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Discrimination & Race Relations
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Minority Studies
  subject:
    topic: Race
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Race relations
  subject:
    topic: Multiracial people
    topic: Race identity
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: E184.A1 M37 2017
  classification: 305.800973
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Multiracial identity and racial politics in the United States
    name:
      name part: Masuoka, Natalie.
    origin info:
      publisher: [New York] : Oxford University Press, [2017]
    identifier: (OCoLC)982088417
  identifier: 9780190690687
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  record info:
    record content source: STF
    record creation date: 170606
    record change date: 20260319164127.5
    record identifier: in00005715072
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng