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Biracial in America
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Forming and Performing Racial Identity
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Artikel-Nr:
9780739145760
Veröffentl:
2011
Seiten:
204
Autor:
Nikki Khanna
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Biracial in America: Forming and Performing Racial Identity looks at how and why biracial Americans identify the way they do, and the ways in which they perform race in their day-to-day lives. Noting that identity is multifaceted, this book also explores multiple dimensions of identity and finds that identity is more complex than often treated in previous research.
Elected in 2008, Barack Obama made history as the first African American president of the United States. Though recognized as the son of a white Kansas-born mother and a black Kenyan father, the media and public have nonetheless pigeonholed him as black, and he too self-identifies as such. Obama’s experience as an American with black and white ancestry, though compelling because of his celebrity, is not unique and raises several questions about the growing number of black-white biracial Americans today: How are they perceived by others with regard to race? How do they tend to identify? And why? Taking a social psychological approach, Biracial in America identifies influencing factors and several underlying processes shaping multidimensional racial identities. This study also investigates the ways in which biracial Americans perform race in their day-to-day lives. One’s race isn’t simply something that others prescribe onto the individual but something that individuals “do.” The strategies and motivations for performing black, white, and biracial identities are explored.
Chapter 1: Questions of Identity
Chapter 2: Black and White in America: Then and Now
Chapter 3: Through the "Looking Glass": Reflected Appraisals and the One Drop Rule
Chapter 4: The Push and Pull of Day-to-Day Interactions
Chapter 5: Social Comparisons and Social Networks
Chapter 6: Identity Work: Strategies and Motivations
Chapter 7: Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 2: Black and White in America: Then and Now
Chapter 3: Through the "Looking Glass": Reflected Appraisals and the One Drop Rule
Chapter 4: The Push and Pull of Day-to-Day Interactions
Chapter 5: Social Comparisons and Social Networks
Chapter 6: Identity Work: Strategies and Motivations
Chapter 7: Concluding Thoughts