The New Colored People
The Mixed-Race Movement in America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4546944 |
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| Authors | Katya Gibel Azoulay (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 151 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America, Jon M Spencer, 2020 |
| Venue | African American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1062-4783 • E-ISSN: 1945-6182 |
| Publisher | Penn State Press (Project Muse) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2901318 |
| OpenAlex | W564855478 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
With a foreword by Richard E. Vander Ross In recent years, dramatic increases in racial intermarriage have given birth to a generation who refuse to be shoehorned into neat, pre-existing racial categories. Energized by a refusal to allow mixed-race people to be rendered invisible, this movement lobbies aggressively to have the category multiracial added to official racial classifications. While applauding the self-awareness and activism at the root of this movement, Jon Michael Spencer questions its ultimate usefulness, deeply concerned that it will unintentionally weaken minority power. Focusing specifically on mixed-race blacks, Spencer argues that the mixed-race movement in the United States would benefit from consideration of how multiracial categories have evolved in South Africa. Americans, he shows us, are deeply uninformed about the tragic consequences of the former white South African government's classification of mixed-race people as Coloured. Spencer maintains that a multiracial category in the U.S. could be equally tragic, not only for blacks but formultiracials themselves. Further, splintering people of color into such classifications of race and mixed race aggravates race relations among society's oppressed. A group that can attain some privilege through a multiracial identity is unlikely to identify with the lesser status group, blacks. It may be that the undoing of racial classification will come not by initiating a new classification, but by our increased recognition that there are millions of people who simply defy easy classification
Aesthetics · Art · Colored · Movement (music · Race (biology · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · School Choice and Performance
Historical Origins of the One-Drop Racial Rule in the United States
Proprieties of Coalition
If You're Half Black, You're Just Black
Racisms
What are You
Interracial Families and the Racial Identification of Mixed- Race Children
Intraracial Diversity and Relations among African-Americans
On the Cunning of Imperialist Reason
America's Changing Color Lines
Migrations, integration, discriminations
Speaking Up
Public categories, private identities
The Stigma of Privilege
Multiracialism on The Real World and the Reconfiguration of Politics in MTV's Brand During the 2000s
(An)Other English city
Mark one or more
Two researchers reflect on navigating multiracial identities in the research situation
Using the extended case method to explore identity in a multiracial context
Multiracial Faces
Researching mixed race in education
Beautiful stereotypes
| Highly cited | No |
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