New PDF release: Biracial in America: Forming and Performing Racial Identity

By Nikki Khanna

ISBN-10: 0739145746

ISBN-13: 9780739145746

ISBN-10: 0739184431

ISBN-13: 9780739184431

Elected in 2008, Barack Obama made historical past because the first African American president of the U.S.. even though well-known because the son of a white Kansas-born mom and a black Kenyan father, the media and public have still pigeonholed him as black, and he too self-identifies as such. Obama’s event as an American with black and white ancestry, notwithstanding compelling due to his big name, isn't really particular and increases a number of questions on the starting to be variety of black-white biracial americans this present day: How are they perceived by way of others in regards to race? How do they have a tendency to spot? And why? Taking a social mental technique, Biracial in the USA identifies influencing elements and a number of other underlying strategies shaping multidimensional racial identities. This learn additionally investigates the ways that biracial american citizens practice race of their day by day lives. One’s race isn’t easily whatever that others prescribe onto the person yet whatever that folks “do.” The techniques and motivations for acting black, white, and biracial identities are explored.

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