Lexington Books
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978-1-4985-0975-6 • Hardback • July 2016 • $103.00 • (£79.00)
978-1-4985-0977-0 • Paperback • May 2018 • $53.99 • (£42.00)
978-1-4985-0976-3 • eBook • July 2016 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
Hephzibah V. Strmic-Pawl is assistant professor at Manhattanville College.
Chapter 1: Multiracialism: A New Era
Chapter 2: A Historical Primer: Asians and Blacks in the United States
Chapter 3: The Synthesis of a Multiracial Identity
Chapter 4: Seeing Racism, Responding to Racism
Chapter 5: White Enough and Salient Blackness
Chapter 6: The Matrix: Complicating the Color Line
Conclusion: Multiracialism and Its Discontents
Epilogue: Multiracials Give Advice
Appendix: Participants in the Study
Strmic-Pawl’s book makes a novel and substantive contribution to the literature on multiracialism.... Strmic-Pawl’s scholarly and wide-ranging study provides a particularly robust and incisive analysis of these matters. In a carefully considered and evidence- based set of conclusions, she exposes the falsity of a post-racial America and the idea that multiracialism dismantles the racial hierarchy.
— Ethnic and Racial Studies
In Multiracialism and Its Discontents: A Comparative Analysis of Asian-White and Black-White Multiracials, Hephzibah V. Strmic-Pawl breaks new ground in critical race and multiracial scholarship. She provides empirical evidence of both the reality of multiracialism and the diversity of multiracial experiences in the U.S. In doing so, she shows how multiracialism challenges and reconfigures but does not dismantle the racial hierarchy. This book is an immensely valuable read for anyone interested in better understanding multiracialisms, racialization, and the persistence of racism in the United States today.
— Kathleen Odell Korgen, William Paterson University
The mixed-race population in the United States stands around seven percent. This multiracial category is growing three times faster than the general population. One in seven newlyweds are interracial. Yet, the multiracial category is understudied. Addressing this blind spot is Hephzibah V. Strmic-Pawl's needed and outstanding comparative study that focuses on how this increasingly acknowledged category can affect race relations and the situational and positional identity options used by those who self-identify as being from more than one race.
— Charles A. Gallagher, La Salle University