Multiracial Americans and Social Class

Multiracial Americans and Social Class

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  • Author: Kathleen Odell Korgen
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134014325
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 249

As the racial hierarchy shifts and inequality between Americans widens, it is important to understand the impact of social class on the rapidly growing multiracial population. Multiracial Americans and Social Class is the first book on multiracial Americans to do so and fills a noticeable void in a growing market. In this book, noted scholars examine the impact of social class on the racial identity of multiracial Americans, in highly readable essays, from a range of sociological perspectives. In doing so, they answer the following questions: Who is multiracial? How does class influence racial identity? How does social class status vary among multiracial populations? Do you need to be middle class in order to be an "honorary white"? What is the relationship between social class, culture, and race? How does the influence of social class compare across multiracial backgrounds? What are multiracial Americans' explanations for racial inequality in the United States? Multiracial Americans and Social Class is a key text for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, and academics in the fields of sociology, race and ethnic studies, social stratification, race relations, and cultural studies.


Race Policy and Multiracial Americans

Race Policy and Multiracial Americans

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  • Author: Kathleen Odell Korgen
  • Publisher: Policy Press
  • ISBN: 1447316509
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 244

Race Policy and Multiracial Americans looks at the impact of multiracial people on race policies—where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the USA and how they can be used to promote racial justice. This much-needed book is essential reading for anyone interested in race relations and social justice.


Politics Beyond Black and White

Politics Beyond Black and White

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  • Author: Lauren Davenport
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108425984
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 267

This book investigates the social and political implications of the US multiracial population, which has surged in recent decades.


New Faces in a Changing America

New Faces in a Changing America

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  • Author: Loretta I. Winters
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 9780761923008
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 436

How multiracial people identify themselves can have a big impact on their positions in family, community & society. This volume examines the multiracial experience in the US.


Making Multiracials

Making Multiracials

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  • Author: Kimberly McClain DaCosta
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780804755467
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 284

Making Multiracials explains how a social movement emerged around mixed race identity in the 1990s and how it made "multiracial" a recognizable racial category in the United States.


Standing on Both Feet

Standing on Both Feet

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  • Author: Cathy J Tashiro
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317251466
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 160

In the first book to focus on the experiences of older Americans of mixed race, Cathy J. Tashiro explores questions of identity and the significance of family experiences, aging and the life course, class, gender, and nationality. Including African American/White and Asian American/White individuals, the book highlights the poignant voices of people who embodied the transgression of the color line. Their very existence violated deep cultural beliefs in the distinctiveness of the races at the time. Based on extensive interviews, the book offers a unique perspective on the social construction of race and racism in America.Check out the website for "Standing on Both Feet" here!


Race policy and multiracial Americans

Race policy and multiracial Americans

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  • Author: Odell Korgen, Kathleen
  • Publisher: Policy Press
  • ISBN: 1447316460
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 244

Race Policy and Multiracial Americans is the first book to look at the impact of multiracial people on race policies—where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the U.S. and how they can be used to promote racial justice for multiracial Americans. Using a critical mixed race perspective, it covers such questions as: Which policies aimed at combating racial discrimination should cover multiracial Americans? Should all (or some) multiracial Americans benefit from affirmative action programmes? How can we better understand the education and health needs of multiracial Americans?This much-needed book is essential reading for sociology, political science and public policy students, policy makers, and anyone interested in race relations and social justice.


Claiming Place

Claiming Place

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  • Author: Marion Kilson
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • ISBN: 0313065071
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 206

Born in the 1960s, the middle-class Biracial Americans of this study are part of a transitional cohort between the hidden biracial generations of the past and the visible blended generations of the future. As individuals, they have variously dealt with their ambiguous status in American society; as a generation, they share common existential realities in relation to White culture. During the last decade of the 20th century public awareness of mixed race Americans increased significantly, in no small part because there has been a substantial increase in interracial marriages and offspring since 1960. This study, based on ethnographic interviews, provides an historical overview of the study of Biracial Americans in the social sciences, a sociological profile of project participants, sociocultural discussions of family and race as well as racial identity choices, and examinations of racial realities in adult lives and of recurrent systemic and personal life themes. The textual part of the book demonstrates the diversity of perception and experience regarding race and identity of these biracial young adults. The Epilogue not only reviews major findings pertaining to this transitional generation of Biracial Americans but discusses biraciality and the deconstruction of race in contemporary American society. An extensive bibliography of popular and scholarly sources concludes the book.


Generation Mixed Goes to School

Generation Mixed Goes to School

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  • Author: Ralina L. Joseph
  • Publisher: Teachers College Press
  • ISBN: 0807765325
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 193

"The authors examine the stories and experience of mixed-race children and their families, in order to better understand how crossing racial boundaries within their own skin opens a world of difference and (often) difficulty that requires examination and response"--


The Cosby Cohort

The Cosby Cohort

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  • Author: Cherise A. Harris
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 1442217650
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 271

The Cosby Cohort examines the childhood experiences of second generation middle class Blacks who grew up in mostly White spaces during the 1980s and 1990s. This probing book explores their journey to upward mobility, including the discrimination they faced in White neighborhoods and schools, the extraordinary pressures placed upon them to achieve, the racial lessons imparted to them by their parents, their tenuous relationships with Black children of other classes, and the impact that all of these experiences had on their adult racial identities. At young ages, this generation of middle class Blacks, whom Harris coins as the Cosby Cohort, was faced with racial displacement, frustration, and the ever-present pressure to emerge victorious against the pull of downward mobility. Even in adulthood, they continue to negotiate the tensions between upward mobility and maintaining ties to the larger Black community and culture. While these young Blacks may have grown up watching The Cosby Show, as the book reveals, their stories indicate a much more complex reality than portrayed by the show.