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Biracial in America
Forming and Performing Racial Identity
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2011
Summary
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.
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Edition
1/2011
Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4574-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4576-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
190
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Contents No access
A Note on Terminology No access
Chapter 01. Questions of Identity No access Pages 1 - 24
Chapter 02. Black and White in America No access Pages 25 - 44
Chapter 03. “From the Outside Looking In” No access Pages 45 - 64
Chapter 04. “Blacks Accept Me More Easily Than Whites” No access Pages 65 - 84
Chapter 05. “I’m Not Like Them at All” No access Pages 85 - 112
Chapter 06. “I Was Like Superman and Clark Kent” No access Pages 113 - 148
Chapter 07. Concluding Thoughts No access Pages 149 - 156
Appendix A: Interview Schedule No access Pages 157 - 162
Appendix B: Profile of the Research Sample No access Pages 163 - 164
Appendix C: Further Reading No access Pages 165 - 170
