Description
Book SynopsisMixing It Up brings together the observations of ten noted voices who have experienced multiracialism first-hand.
Trade Review"These essays do a wonderful job of blending theory and practice... This collection embraces a number of tensions [that] raise provocative questions about the nature of identity and the relationship between identity and social justice... This collection should have broad appeal." Diane Raymond, Dean and Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, Simmons College
Table of Contents
- Preface (Naomi Zack)
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction (SanSan Kwan and Kenneth Speirs)
- I. Issues and Trends
- 1. American Mixed Race: The United States 2000 Census and Related Issues (Naomi Zack)
- 2. Misceg-narrations (Raquel Scherr Salgado)
- II. Multiracial Subjects
- 3. A Passionate Occupant of the Transnational Transit Lounge (Adrian Carton)
- 4. Miscegenation and Me (Richard Guzman)
- 5. "What Is She Anyway?": Rearranging Bodily Mythologies (Orathai Northern)
- 6. Resemblance (Alice White)
- 7. "Brown Like Me": Explorations of a Shifting Self (Stefanie Dunning)
- 8. Toward a Multiethnic Cartography: Multiethnic Identity, Monoracial Cultural Logic, and Popular Culture (Evelyn Alsultany)
- 9. Keeping Up Appearances: Ethnic Alien-Nation in Female Solo Performance (Cathy Irwin and Sean Metzger)
- 10. Against Erasure: The Multiracial Voice in Cherríe Moraga's Loving in the War Years (Carole DeSouza)
- About the Contributors
