Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects

Commendation Quotes: 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. 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 Cherrie Moraga's Loving in the War Years Carole DeSouza About the ContributorsPublisher Marketing: The United States Census 2000 presents a twenty-first century America in which mixed-race marriages, cross-race adoption, and multiracial families in general are challenging the ethnic definitions by which the nation has historically categorized its population. Addressing a wide spectrum of questions raised by this rich new cultural landscape, Mixing It Up brings together the observations of ten noted voices who have experienced multiracialism first-hand. Related Issues to Cathy Irwin and Sean Metzger's Keeping Up Appearances: Ethnic Alien-Nation in Female Solo Performance, this diverse collection spans the realities of multiculturalism in compelling new analysis. Arguing that society's discomfort with multiracialism has been institutionalized throughout history, whether through the one drop rule or media depictions, SanSan Kwan and Kenneth Speirs reflect on the means by which the monoracial lens is slowly being replaced. Itself a hybrid of memoir, history, and sociological theory, Mixing It Up makes it clear why the identity politics of previous decades have little relevance to the fluid new face of contemporary humanity. Review Citations:

Multicultural Review 06/01/2005 pg. 86 (EAN 9780292743458, Paperback)

Multicultural Review 06/01/2005 pg. 86 (EAN 9780292705852, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Kwan, SanSan Kwan is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. Contributor Bio:  Speirs, Kenneth Sansan Kwan is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. Contributor Bio:  Zack, Naomi Naomi Zack (Ph. D., Columbia University) is the author of RACE AND MIXED RACE (1993), PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND RACE (2002), and INCLUSIVE FEMINISM (2005). She is the editor of AMERICAN MIXED RACE (1995), RACE/SEX (1997), and WOMEN OF COLOR AND PHILOSOPHY (2000). She is now Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon where her primary research interests include the philosophy of race, seventeenth century philosophy, and feminism.