"Multiracial tackles the momentous field of mixedness studies in a highly engaging and accessible manner. strmic-pawl provides critical reflection on what studies have shaped our understandings of how mixed-race is defined, whose experiences are highlighted, and the role of social institutions such as family and media. It is an important read for race scholars, as well as anyone interested in issues of mixedness and multiracialism."Erica Chito Childs, Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center"strmic-pawl not only offers a comprehensive overview of the growing literature on multiracial people, she delivers an indisputable critique of the purported celebration of multiracialism by elucidating how anti-Blackness and White dominance prevail in insidious ways. She engages with important questions about what factors impact racial identity, how institutions shape understandings of multiracial people, and what these patterns indicate about the future of multiracial people. An outstanding contribution to the literature."Chandra D. L. Waring, University of Massachusetts-Lowell"[A] thorough and up-to-date overview of multiraciality and mixed-race studies [...T]hrough careful examination of several decades' worth of scholarship, strmic-pawl emphasizes the significance of multiraciality in the understanding of race as a social construction and how mixedness provides insight into the fluidity of racial identity, race, and racism."Ethnic and Racial Studies
Detailed ContentsList of Figures and TablesCHAPTER 1: MULTIRACIAL AMERICACHAPTER 2: DEFINING MIXED-RACE & MULTIRACIALCHAPTER 3: RACE AND FAMILYCHAPTER 4: INTERSECTIONAL IDENTITIES & GLOBAL MIXEDNESSCHAPTER 5: MULTIRACIALISM IN THE MEDIACHAPTER 6: NEW, SHIFTING, OR REBOUNDING BOUNDARIESReferencesNotesIndex
hephzibah v. strmic-pawl has her PhD from The University of Virginia and is currently an Associate Professor at Manhattanville College. She has three other books including Understanding Racism: Theories of Oppression and Discrimination, which won the 2022 TAA Most Promising New Textbook Award. She is also currently the Editor in Chief of the journal Humanity & Society and the facilitator for the campaign, Support Ella Baker Day.