Troubling the Family : The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism /

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Troubling the Family argues that the emergence of multiracialism during the 1990s was determined by underlying and unacknowledged gender norms. Opening with a germinal moment for multiracialism -- the seemingly instantaneous popular appearance of Tiger Woods -- Habiba Ibrahim examines how the shifti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ibrahim, Habiba (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Racially mixed people.
Racially mixed children.
Families.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Reference.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Alternative Family.
Familles > États-Unis.
Families > United States.
Racially mixed people > United States.
Racially mixed children > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Multiracial timelines : a genealogy of personhood
  • Legitimizing the deviant family : Loving v. Virginia and the Moynihan report
  • The Whiteness of maternal memoirs : politicizing the multiracial child
  • Ambivalent outcomes : Blackness and the return of racial passing
  • Conclusion : dreams of the father and potentials lost.

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