Who is Black? : flux and change in American racial identity -- Biracial identity research : past and present -- What it means to be mixed-race in post-civil rights America -- Sociological factors influencing biracial identity -- The color complex : appearances and multiracial identity -- Who is Black today and who will be Black tomorrow?
Summary
"Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America is a study of the dynamic meaning of racial identity for multiracial people in post-civil rights America. Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma document the wide range of racial identities that individuals with one black and one white parent develop, and they provide an incisive sociological explanation of the choices facing those who are multiracial." "Stemming from the controversy of the 2000 census and whether an additional "multiracial" category should be added to the survey, this second edition of Beyond Black uses both survey data and interviews of multiracial young adults to explore the contemporary dynamics of racial identity formation. The authors raise social and political questions that are posed by expanding racial categorization on the U.S. census."--BOOK JACKET
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Originally published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2002
