Tripping on the Color Line: Black-White Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, W.E.B. Du Bois predicted that the central problem facing the United States in the new century would be the "color line." Now, with another century upon us, many people are found straddling the color line. They come from the growing number of multi-racial families in America, families seeking their places in a racially polarized society.In interviews with black-white multiracial families, Heather M. Dalmage examines the challenges they face and the need for rethinking race in America. The lived reality of race in the ways multiracial families construct their identities and sense of community and politics and the lack of language to describe multiracial experiences, along with the methods of negotiating racial ambiguity in a racially divided society are central themes of Tripping on the Color Line. By connecting her interviewee's stories to specific issues, such as census categories, transracial adoption, and intermarriage, Dalmage raises the debate to a broad discussion of the idea of race and its impact on social justice. "Tripping on the Color Line is one of the most brilliant and provocative books written about politics of multiracial identity..." - Michael Eric Dyson. "Tripping on the Color Line provides a blueprint for discussions about race in a way no other text I have read..." - Maria P.P. Root, editor of The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier. "This is a book at the borders- of the personal and the political, the lived and the researched..." - Barbara Katz Rothman, author of Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations: the Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Thinking about the Color Line11Discovering Racial Borders332Redlines and Color Lines713We Are the Nation's Racial Rorschach Tests1054Communities, Politics, and Racial Thinking130Conclusion: Challenging the Color Line171Notes179Index193
