The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier [Paperback]

How might a multiracial concept dismantle our negative construction of race? How do we redefine `ethnicity' when `race' is less central to the definition? The Multiracial Experience challenges current theoretical and political conceptualizations of race using the multiracial experience of individuals as a tool for examining these and other questions. Each contribution opens with a personal sketch of the multiracial experience. Topics explored in the book include: the differences between race and ethnicity; colour, gender and sexuality in a multiracial context; and ethnicity and its role in identity formation.How might a multiracial concept dismantle our negative construction of race? How do we redefine `ethnicity' when `race' is less central to the definition? The Multiracial Experience challenges current theoretical and political conceptualizations of race using the multiracial experience of individuals as a tool for examining these and other questions. Each contribution opens with a personal sketch of the multiracial experience. Topics explored in the book include: the differences between race and ethnicity; colour, gender and sexuality in a multiracial context; and ethnicity and its role in identity formation.The Multiracial Experience - Maria P P Root
Racial Borders as a Significant Frontier in Race Relations
PART ONE: HUMAN RIGHTS
A Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People - Maria P P Root
Government Classification of Multiracial/Multiethnic People - Carlos A Fernández
The Real World - Susan R Graham
Multiracial Identity in a Color-Conscious World - Deborah A Ramirez
Transracial Adoptions - Ruth G McRoy and Christine C Iijima Hall
In Whose Best Interest?
Voices from the Movement - Cynthia L Nakashima
Approaches to Multiraciality
PART TWO: IDENTITY
Hidden Agendas, Identitl(