Challenging Multiracial Identity / / Rainier Spencer.

What is multiracialism—and what are the theoretical consequences and practical costs of asserting a multiracial identity? Arguing that the multiracial movement bolsters, rather than subverts, traditional categories of race, Rainier Spencer critically assesses current scholarship in support of multir...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]
©2006
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (135 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction: Expecting Excellence in the Field of Multiracial Identity Studies --
1 Projection as Reality: Three Authors,Three Studies, One Problem --
2 Psychobabble, Socioblather, and the Reinscription of the Pathology Paradigm --
3 White Mothers, the Loving Legend, and Manufacturing a Biracial Baby Boom --
4 Distinction Without Difference: The Insidious Argument for First-Generation Black/White Multiracial Identity --
5 The Road Forward --
Bibliography --
Index --
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Summary:What is multiracialism—and what are the theoretical consequences and practical costs of asserting a multiracial identity? Arguing that the multiracial movement bolsters, rather than subverts, traditional categories of race, Rainier Spencer critically assesses current scholarship in support of multiracial identity.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781626372986
9783110784251
DOI:10.1515/9781626372986
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Rainier Spencer.