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Race policy and multiracial Americans /
Race Policy and Multiracial Americans is the first book to look at the impact of multiracial people on race policies - where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the U.S. and how they can be used to promote racial justice for multiracial Americans. Using a critical mixed race...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- RACE POLICY AND MULTIRACIAL AMERICANS
- Contents
- Author biographies
- Introduction
- Part One: The changing racial hierarchy and multiracial Americans
- Part Two: Race policy and multiracial Americans
- Part Three: Multiracial Americans, the color-blind ideology, and the future of race relations
- 1. Multiracial Americans throughout the history of the US
- African slavery, anti-miscegenation laws, and the one-drop rule
- Seminole views of multiraciality
- Navajo views of multi-ethnicity and multiraciality
- Mestizos of New Spain
- The Chinese-Hawaiians
- Multiraciality in the US Constitution, Census, and social policy
- The growing acceptance of multiraciality
- Closing thoughts
- 2. National and local structures of inequality: multiracial groups' profiles across the US
- Why compare multiracial groups?
- Why use survey data?
- Where do the multiracial groups "fit" in the racial hierarchy in the US?
- Does it matter where you live?
- Concluding thoughts
- 3. Latinos and multiracial America
- Reframing Latino identity for the 21st century
- Racializing and re-racializing Latinos
- Racial assimilation through race policy
- "Hispanic" as a policy of racial assimilation
- Conclusion
- 4. The connections among racial identity, social class, and public policy?
- The influence of social class on racial identity
- How does social class influence racial identity?
- Implications for the US Census and for race policy
- Conclusion
- 5. Multiracial Americans and racial discrimination
- Introduction
- Historical engagement between multiracial people and the law
- Current factors contributing to the failure of antidiscrimination laws to protect multiracial people
- Toward a distinctive multiracial group identity
- An additional modification to antidiscrimination law
- Concluding remarks.
- 6. Should all (or some) multiracial Americans benefit from affirmative action programs?
- Introduction
- The roots of affirmative action and the rise of diversity-based affirmative action
- Assets and liabilities of diversity-based affirmative action
- Affirmative action in higher education
- Conclusion and policy suggestions
- 7. Multiracial students and educational policy
- Critical and culturally responsive pedagogy
- Research on the experiences of multiracial students in schools
- Formal and hidden curriculum issues
- Implications for policymakers, researchers, and educators
- 8. Multiracial Americans in college
- Complicating policies: the diversity of students and institutions
- Institutional diversity
- Strategies
- The imperative of language
- The language and policy implications of underrepresentation
- Future issues of policy and practice to consider
- Conclusion
- 9. Multiracial Americans, health patterns, and health policy: assessment and recommendations for ways forward
- Overview of multiracial health: a focus on risk?
- Patterns of multiracial adult health
- Health policy issues in multiracial America
- Health-care inequalities impacting multiracial people
- Conclusions
- 10. Racial identity among multiracial prisoners in the color-blind era
- Methods
- Sample
- Findings
- Conclusion
- 11. Multiraciality and the racial order: the good, the bad, and the ugly
- Multiraciality within the matrix of race
- The good: multiraciality moving racial reconciliation forward
- The bad: multiracial as status quo
- The ugly: reification of the hierarchy and Whiteness
- Moving multiraciality forward
- 12. Multiracial identity and monoracial conflict: toward a new social justice framework
- Research justice: the DataCenter and multiracial, multi-issue policy reform and advocacy.
- Circle of Healing: multiracial Native American identity, voice, and public visibility as a strategy for policy reform
- Speak Out-The Institute for Democratic Education and Culture as a model for multiracial engagement and resistance among college students and university administrators
- The AAACC: innovations in multi-community arts organizing
- Multiracial organizing and monoracial solidarity as a new social justice framework for policy reform in the US
- A new social justice framework
- Conclusion: Policies for a racially just society
- Index.