The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier

In her bold new edited volume The Multiracial Experience Maria P. P. Root challenges current theoretical and political conceptualizations of race by examining the experience of mixed-race individuals. Articulating questions that will form the basis for future discussions of race and identity the contributors tackle concepts such as redefining ethnicity when race is less central to the definition and how a multiracial model might dismantle our negative construction of race. Researchers and practitioners in ethnic studies anthropology education law psychology nursing social work and sociology add personal insights in chapter-opening vignettes while providing integral critical viewpoints. Sure to stimulate thinking and discussion the contributors focus on the most contemporary racial issues including the racial classification system from the U.S. Census to the schools; the differences between race ethnicity and colorism; gender and sexuality in a multicultural context; ethnic identity and identity formation; transracial adoption; and the future of race relations in the United States. The Multiracial Experience opens up the dialogue to rethink and redefine race and social relations in this country. This volume provides discussions key to all professionals practitioners researchers and students in multicultural issues ethnic relations sociology education psychology management and public health. "Dr. Maria P. P. Roots . . . discussions are thoughtful analytical and informative. Root argues that the emergence of a racially mixed population is transforming the racial character of the United States and that the increasing presence of multiracial people necessitates Americans to ask questions about their identity." --Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism "Finally in one volume ammunition for the informed debate about what multiculturalism means in the United States." --Lise Funderburg author of Black White Other: Biracial