Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 406
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8476-8013-9 • Paperback • March 1995 • $71.00 • (£55.00)
Naomi Zack is assistant professor of philosophy at the State University of New York, Albany.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Autobiography
Chapter 3 Five Arrows
Chapter 4 Color Fades Over Time
Chapter 5 Racelessness
Chapter 6 Check the Box That Best Describes You
Chapter 7 What Are They?
Part 8 Art
Chapter 9 From Melodrama to the Movies
Chapter 10 The Theater of Identity
Chapter 11 The Go-Between People
Part 12 Social Science
Chapter 13 The Hawaiian Alternative to the One-Drop Rule
Chapter 14 Some Kind of Indian
Chapter 15 Exploring the Social Construction of Race
Chapter 16 Therapeutic Perspectives on Biracial Identity Formation and Internalized Oppression
Part 17 Public Policy
Chapter 18 Grassroots Advocacy
Chapter 19 Testimony of the Association of Multi Ethnic Americans
Chapter 20 Multiracial Identity Assertion in the Sociopolitical Context of Primary Education
Chapter 21 Yankee Imperialism and Imperialist Nostalgia
Part 22 Identity Theory
Chapter 23 The Multiracia Contribution to the Psychological Browning of America
Chapter 24 Made in the USA
Chapter 25 Mestizo Identity
Chapter 26 Race and Racism
Chapter 27 Ethnic Transgressions: Confessions of an Assimilated Jew
Chapter 28 Life After Race
It may be the most important work yet in a movement that could change all our racial discourse in the classrooms, on suburban streets and in the alleys of our cities, in our political debates, and in our innermost understanding of who we are.
— Jorge Garcia, Rutgers University
A thought-provoking collection that addresses the concerns of a growing social movement.
— Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
These essays provide interesting and evocative interpretations and analyses of the history of American understandings of race.
— Humanity & Society
A valuable aid for anyone doing serious research on the meanings of race in the American context, and . . . a valuable educational resource for students of the subject as well.
— Lewis R. Gordon, professor of philosophy and Africana studies, University of Connecticut