Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America
Beyond Black is a groundbreaking study of the dynamic meaning of racial identity for multiracial people in post-Civil Rights America. Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David Brunsma document the wide range of racial identities that individuals with one Black and one White parent develop, and they provide a incisive sociological explanation of the choices facing those who are multiracial. Stemming from the controversy of the 2000 Census and whether an additional 'multiracial' category should be added...
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The urgent debate over a multiracial category in the 2000 census forced the nation to reflect upon the important questions of what it means to construct and maintain a racial identity. Using in-depth interviews and survey data, Beyond Black documents how biracial people develop many different racial identities and how these self-understandings are derived from historical and contemporary social, cultural, interactional, and psychological processes.
Chapter 1 List of Tables and Figures Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgements Chapter 4 Foreword Chapter 5 Chapter 1: Who is Black? Flux and Change in American Racial Identity Chapter 6 Chapter 2: Biracial Identity Research: Past and Present Chapter 7 Chapter 3: What it Means to be Mixed-Race in Post-Civil Rights America Chapter 8 Chapter 4 : Sociological Factors Influencing Biracial Identity Chapter 9 Chapter 5: The Color Complex: Appearances and Multiracial Identity Chapter 10 Chapter 6: Who is Black Today and Who Will be Black Tomorrow? Chapter 11 Endnotes Chapter 12 Appendices Chapter 13 References Chapter 14 Index
