Mixed Race Identity In The American South

Download Mixed Race Identity In The American South full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Mixed Race Identity In The American South ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Mixed-Race Identity in the American South

Author : Julia Sattler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 179362707X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mixed-Race Identity in the American South by : Julia Sattler

Download or read book Mixed-Race Identity in the American South written by Julia Sattler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary investigation argues that since the 1990s, discourses about mixed-race heritage in the United States have taken the shape of a veritable literary genre, here termed “memoir of the search.” The study uses four different texts to explore this non-fictional genre, including Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family and Shirlee Taylor Haizlip's The Sweeter the Juice. All feature a protagonist using methods from archival investigation to DNA-testing to explore an intergenerational family secret; photographs and family trees; and the trip to the American South, which is identified as the site of the secret’s origin and of the family’s past. As a genre, these texts negotiate the memory of slavery and segregation in the present. In taking up central narratives of Americanness, such as the American Dream and the Immigrant story, as well as discourses generating the American family, the texts help inscribe themselves and the mixed-race heritage they address into the American mainstream. In its outlook, this book highlights the importance of the memoirs’ negotiations of the past when finding ways to remember after the last witnesses have passed away. and contributes to the discussion over political justice and reparations for slavery.

The New Colored People

Author : Jon M. Spencer
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814780725
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The New Colored People by : Jon M. Spencer

Download or read book The New Colored People written by Jon M. Spencer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans remain oblivious of a new racial phenomenon that may radically alter the political landscape of the United States. In recent years, dramatic increases in racial intermarriage have given birth to a generation of mixed-race children whose interracially married parents refuse to allow them to be shoehorned into neat, pre-existing racial categories. The parents, through organizations they have founded or joined, have lobbied aggressively for the category "multiracial" to be added to official racial classifications at the state and federal levels, including the United States census. Since a nonracial society is one of the stated goals of the multiracialists, Spencer suggests that the undoing of racial classification will come not by initiating a new classification - which will only give Americans the impression that mixed-race people can be neatly classified - but by our increased recognition that there are millions of people who simply defy classification.

The Beiging of America, Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century

Author : Cathy J. Schlund Vials
Publisher : 2Leaf Press
ISBN 13 : 1940939550
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (49 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Beiging of America, Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century by : Cathy J. Schlund Vials

Download or read book The Beiging of America, Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century written by Cathy J. Schlund Vials and published by 2Leaf Press. This book was released on 2017-07-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BEIGING OF AMERICA, BEING MIXED RACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY, takes on “race matters” and considers them through the firsthand accounts of mixed race people in the United States. Edited by mixed race scholars Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Sean Frederick Forbes and Tara Betts, this collection consists of 39 poets, writers, teachers, professors, artists and activists, whose personal narratives articulate the complexities of interracial life. THE BEIGING OF AMERICA is an absorbing and thought-provoking collection of stories that explore racial identity, alienation, with people often forced to choose between races and cultures in their search for self-identity. While underscoring the complexity of the mixed race experience, these unadorned voices offer a genuine, poignant, enlightening and empowering message to all readers.

American Mixed Race

Author : Naomi Zack
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847680139
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis American Mixed Race by : Naomi Zack

Download or read book American Mixed Race written by Naomi Zack and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting multidisciplinary collection brings together twenty-two original essays by scholars on the cutting edge of racial theory, who address both the American concept of race and the specific problems experienced by those who do not fit neatly into the boxes society requires them to check.

Claiming Place

Author : Marion Kilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313065071
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Claiming Place by : Marion Kilson

Download or read book Claiming Place written by Marion Kilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-11-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Beyond Black

Author : Kerry Rockquemore
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742560550
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Beyond Black by : Kerry Rockquemore

Download or read book Beyond Black written by Kerry Rockquemore and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urgent debate over a multiracial category in the 2000 census forced the nation to reflect upon the important questions of what it means to construct and maintain a racial identity. Using in-depth interviews and survey data, Beyond Black documents how biracial people develop many different racial identities and how these self-understandings are derived from historical and contemporary social, cultural, interactional, and psychological processes.

New Faces in a Changing America

Author : Loretta I. Winters
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761923008
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis New Faces in a Changing America by : Loretta I. Winters

Download or read book New Faces in a Changing America written by Loretta I. Winters and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862-1916

Author : Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496216814
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862-1916 by : Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly

Download or read book The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862-1916 written by Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862–1916, Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly examines generations of mixed-race African Americans after the Civil War and into the Progressive Era, skillfully tracking the rise of a leadership class in Black America made up largely of individuals who had complex racial ancestries, many of whom therefore enjoyed racial options to identity as either Black or White. Although these people might have chosen to pass as White to avoid the racial violence and exclusion associated with the dominant racial ideology of the time, they instead chose to identify as Black Americans, a decision that provided upward mobility in social, political, and economic terms. Dineen-Wimberly highlights African American economic and political leaders and educators such as P. B. S. Pinchback, Theophile T. Allain, Booker T. Washington, and Frederick Douglass as well as women such as Josephine B. Willson Bruce and E. Azalia Hackley who were prominent clubwomen, lecturers, educators, and settlement house founders. In their quest for leadership within the African American community, these leaders drew on the concept of Blackness as a source of opportunities and power to transform their communities in the long struggle for Black equality. The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862–1916 confounds much of the conventional wisdom about racially complicated people and details the manner in which they chose their racial identity and ultimately overturns the “passing” trope that has dominated so much Americanist scholarship and social thought about the relationship between race and social and political transformation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Mixed Race Identities

Author : P. Aspinall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137318899
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mixed Race Identities by : P. Aspinall

Download or read book Mixed Race Identities written by P. Aspinall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ethnic and racial options exercised by young mixed race people in Britain. It reveals the diverse ways in which young people identify and experience their mixed status, the complex nature of such identities, and the rise of other identity strands which are now challenging race and ethnicity as dominant and salient identities.

Red and Yellow, Black and Brown

Author : Joanne L. Rondilla
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813587336
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Red and Yellow, Black and Brown by : Joanne L. Rondilla

Download or read book Red and Yellow, Black and Brown written by Joanne L. Rondilla and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red and Yellow, Black and Brown gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often very different dynamics that exist for mixed race people who are not part white. The chapters focus on the social, psychological, and political situations of mixed race people who have links to two or more peoples of color— Chinese and Mexican, Asian and Black, Native American and African American, South Asian and Filipino, Black and Latino/a and so on. Red and Yellow, Black and Brown addresses questions surrounding the meanings and communication of racial identities in dual or multiple minority situations and the editors highlight the theoretical implications of this fresh approach to racial studies.

More Than Black

Author : G. Reginald Daniel
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439904839
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis More Than Black by : G. Reginald Daniel

Download or read book More Than Black written by G. Reginald Daniel and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, anyone with even a trace of African American ancestry has been considered black. Even as the twenty-first century opens, a racial hierarchy still prevents people of color, including individuals of mixed race, from enjoying the same privileges as Euro-Americans. In this book, G. Reginald Daniel argues that we are at a cross-roads, with members of a new multiracial movement pointing the way toward equality. Tracing the centuries-long evolution of Eurocentrism, a concept geared to protecting white racial purity and social privilege, Daniel shows how race has been constructed and regulated in the United States. The so-called one-drop rule (i.e., hypodescent) obligated individuals to identify as black or white, in effect erasing mixed-race individuals from the social landscape. For most of our history, many mixed-race individuals of African American descent have attempted to acquire the socioeconomic benefits of being white by forming separate enclaves or "passing." By the 1990s, however, interracial marriages became increasingly common, and multiracial individuals became increasingly political, demanding institutional changes that would recognize the reality of multiple racial backgrounds and challenging white racial privilege. More Than Black? regards the crumbling of the old racial order as an opportunity for substantially more than an improvement in U.S. race relations; it offers no less than a radical transformation of the nation's racial consciousness and the practice of democracy.

Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309092116
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life by : National Research Council

Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-10-16 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their later years, Americans of different racial and ethnic backgrounds are not in equally good-or equally poor-health. There is wide variation, but on average older Whites are healthier than older Blacks and tend to outlive them. But Whites tend to be in poorer health than Hispanics and Asian Americans. This volume documents the differentials and considers possible explanations. Selection processes play a role: selective migration, for instance, or selective survival to advanced ages. Health differentials originate early in life, possibly even before birth, and are affected by events and experiences throughout the life course. Differences in socioeconomic status, risk behavior, social relations, and health care all play a role. Separate chapters consider the contribution of such factors and the biopsychosocial mechanisms that link them to health. This volume provides the empirical evidence for the research agenda provided in the separate report of the Panel on Race, Ethnicity, and Health in Later Life.

A Chosen Exile

Author : Allyson Hobbs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067436810X
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (743 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Chosen Exile by : Allyson Hobbs

Download or read book A Chosen Exile written by Allyson Hobbs and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: To live a life elsewhere -- White is the color of freedom -- Waiting on a white man's chance -- Lost kin -- Searching for a new soul in Harlem -- Coming home -- Epilogue: On identity.

Black, White, Other

Author : Lise Funderburg
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Black, White, Other by : Lise Funderburg

Download or read book Black, White, Other written by Lise Funderburg and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1994 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lise Funderburg presents the lives and views of forty-six adult children of black-white unions. Topics include love and marriage, racism in the workplace, and bringing up children in a racially divided world.

Redefining Urban and Suburban America

Author : Bruce Katz
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815748588
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (485 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Redefining Urban and Suburban America by : Bruce Katz

Download or read book Redefining Urban and Suburban America written by Bruce Katz and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2004-05-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early returns from Census 2000 data show that the United States continued to undergo dynamic changes in the 1990s, with cities and suburbs providing the locus of most of the volatility. Metropolitan areas are growing more diverse—especially with the influx of new immigrants—the population is aging, and the make-up of households is shifting. Singles and empty-nesters now surpass families with children in many suburbs. The contributors to this book review data on population, race and ethnicity, and household composition, provided by the Census's "short form," and attempt to respond to three simple queries: —Are cities coming back? —Are all suburbs growing? —Are cities and suburbs becoming more alike? Regional trends muddy the picture. Communities in the Northeast and Midwest are generally growing slowly, while those in the South and West are experiencing explosive growth ("Warm, dry places grew. Cold, wet places declined," note two authors). Some cities are robust, others are distressed. Some suburbs are bedroom communities, others are hot employment centers, while still others are deteriorating. And while some cities' cores may have been intensely developed, including those in the Northeast and Midwest, and seen population increases, the areas surrounding the cores may have declined significantly. Trends in population confirm an increasingly diverse population in both metropolitan and suburban areas with the influx of Hispanic and Asian immigrants and with majority populations of central cities for the first time being made up of minority groups. Census 2000 also reveals that the overall level of black-to-nonblack segregation has reached its lowest point since 1920, although high segregation remains in many areas. Redefining Urban and Suburban America explores these demographic trends and their complexities, along with their implications for the policies and politics shaping metropolitan America. The shifts discussed here have significant influence in demand for housing and schools, childcare and healthcare, as well as private goods and services. Contributors include: Alan Berube (Brookings Institution); Benjamin Forman(Massachusetts Institute of Technology); William H. Frey (University of Michigan, Milken Institute); Edward L. Glaeser (Harvard University); John R. Logan (University at Albany, State University of New York), William H. Lucy (University of Virginia); David L. Phillips (University of Virginia); Jesse M. Shapiro (Harvard University), Patrick A. Simmons (Fannie Mae Foundationa); Audrey Singer (Brookings Institution); Rebecca R. Sohmer (Fannie Mae Foundation); Roberto Suro (Pew Hispanic Center); Jacob L. Vigdor (Duke University. Brookings Metro Series

Race Mixing

Author : Renee Christine Romano
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042883
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Race Mixing by : Renee Christine Romano

Download or read book Race Mixing written by Renee Christine Romano and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage between blacks and whites is a longstanding and deeply ingrained taboo in American culture. On the eve of World War II, mixed-race marriage was illegal in most states. Yet, sixty years later, black-white marriage is no longer illegal or a divisive political issue, and the number of such couples and their mixed-race children has risen dramatically. Renee Romano explains how and why such marriages have gained acceptance, and what this tells us about race relations in contemporary America. The history of interracial marriage helps us understand the extent to which America has overcome its racist past, and how much further we must go to achieve meaningful racial equality.

From Black to Biracial

Author : Kathleen Korgen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313024901
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis From Black to Biracial by : Kathleen Korgen

Download or read book From Black to Biracial written by Kathleen Korgen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-02-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is a person with both a white and African American parent black? Thirty years ago in American society the answer would have been yes. Today, the answer most likely depends on whom you ask. According to the U.S. Census, a person with both a black and a white parent is, in fact, black. However, most young persons who fit this description describe themselves as biracial, both black and white. Most young Americans, whatever their racial background, agree. Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 signaled the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement, a transformation has occured in the racial self-definition of Americans with both an African American and a white parent. This book describes the transformation and explains why it has occurred and how it has come about. Through extensive research and dozens of interviews, Korgen describes how the transformation has its roots in the historical and cultural transitions in U.S. society since the Civil Rights era. A ground breaking book, From Black to Biracial will help all Americans understand the societal implications of the increasingly multiracial nature of our population. From affirmative action to the present controversy over the U.S. Census 2000, the repercussions of the transformation in racial identity related here affect all race-based aspects of our society. Students and faculty in sociology and multicultural studies, business leaders, and general readers alike will benefit from reading this work.