Multiracial identity and racial politics in the United States /

"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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Masuoka, Natalie (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.