Offers a social and literary history of multiracialism in the twentieth-century US. Molly Littlewood McKibbin examines the African American and white racial binary in contemporary multiracial literature to reveal the tensions of multiracialism in American life through individual consciousness, social perceptions, societal expectations, and subjective struggles with multiracial identity.
Offers a social and literary history of multiracialism in the twentieth-century US. Molly Littlewood McKibbin examines the African American and white ...
Using real-life examples, this book asks readers to reflect on how we—as an academic community—think and talk about race and racial identity in twenty-first-century America. One of these examples, Rachel Doležal, provides a springboard for an examination of the state of our discourse around changeable racial identity and the potential for “transracialism.” An analysis ofhowwe are theorizing transracial identity (as opposed to an argument for/against it), this study detects some omissions and problems that are becoming evident as we establish transracial theory and suggests ways...
Using real-life examples, this book asks readers to reflect on how we—as an academic community—think and talk about race and racial identity in tw...
