ISBN:
9780203643617
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XXII, 329 Seiten)
,
graphische Darstellungen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als "Mixed race" studies
DDC:
305.8/00973
Keywords:
Ethnic relations
;
Ethnicity
;
Miscegenation
;
Race relations
;
Racially mixed people
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Bibliografie
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Interethnische Herkunft
;
Rassenmischung
;
Rassenmischung
Abstract:
Mixed race studies is one of the fastest growing, as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnic relations. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and the biological sciences, as well as the humanities, this reader charts the evolution of debates on 'race' and 'mixed race' from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book is divided into three main sections:tracing the origins: miscegenation, moral degeneracy and geneticsmapping contemporary and foundational discourses: 'mixed race', identities polit
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on terminology; INTRODUCTION: RETHINKING 'MIXED RACE' STUDIES; PART ONE Tracing the origins: miscegenation, moral degeneracy and genetics; Miscegenation and moral degeneracy; 1 DO RACES EVER AMALGAMATE?; 2 RECAPITULATION: THE RESPECTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE THREE GREAT RACES; THE SUPERIORITY OF THE WHITE TYPE, AND, WITHIN THIS TYPE, OF THE ARYAN FAMILY; 3 HYBRIDITY OF ANIMALS, VIEWED IN CONNECTION WITH THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MANKIND; 4 ON THE RACES OF MEN: . . . THE EFFECTS OF CROSSING
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5 COMPARATIVE ELEMENTS OF CIVILIZATION6 THE AMALGAM HE REPRESENTS AND HIS SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE STUDY OF RACE; 7 THE HYBRID AS A SOCIOLOGICAL TYPE; 8 GOD'S OWN CHILLUN; 9 THE RACIAL HYBRID; 10 CROSSING THE BOUNDARY: THE MARGINAL MAN; 11 THE 'HALF-CASTE' PATHOLOGY; 12 NAZI-STERILIZATION OF AFRO-GERMANS; Suggestions for further reading; Genetics; 13 American Anthropological Association AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION STATEMENT ON 'RACE'; 14 GENETICS AND THE BIOLOGY OF RACE CROSSING; 15 GENETICS, IDENTITY AND THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ESSENTIALISM; 16 DNA, BLOOD AND RACIALIZING THE TRIBE
Description / Table of Contents:
Suggestions for further readingPART TWO Mapping contemporary and foundational discourses: 'mixed race', identities politics and celebration; 17 LA CONCIENCIA DE LA MESTIZA: TOWARDS A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS; 18 WITHIN, BETWEEN, AND BEYOND RACE; 19 THE ILLOGIC OF AMERICAN RACIAL CATEGORIES; 20 BLACK, WHITE, AND GRAY: WORDS, WORDS, WORDS; 21 RACE, BIRACIALITY, AND MIXED RACE; 22 RACE-ING AND BEING RACED: THE CRITICAL INTERROGATION OF 'PASSING'; 23 INTRODUCTION; 24 INTO THE MIX
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25 LET BLACKNESS AND WHITENESS WASH THROUGH: COMPETING DISCOURSES ON BI-RACIALIZATION AND THE COMPULSION OF GENEALOGICAL ERASURESSuggestions for further reading; PART THREE Debating definitions: multiraciality, census categories and critiques; The census and categories; 26 THE MULATTO MILLENNIUM; 27 IS BIRACIAL ENOUGH (OR, WHAT'S THIS ABOUT A MULTIRACIAL CATEGORY ON THE CENSUS?: A CONVERSATION); 28 WILL THE CENSUS GO MULTIRACIAL?; 29 THINKING ABOUT TRANSCENDING RACE; 30 OVERVIEW OF RACE AND HISPANIC ORIGIN: CENSUS 2000 BRIEF; 31 'MIXED RACE' IN OFFICIAL STATISTICS
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32 CENSUS 2001 - ETHNICITY AND RELIGION IN ENGLAND AND WALES (2002)33 THE CONCEPTUALISATION AND CATEGORISATION OF MIXED RACE/ETHNICITY IN BRITAIN AND NORTH AMERICA: IDENTITY OPTIONS AND THE ROLE OF THE STATE; Suggestions for further reading; Multiraciality and critiques; 34 DO MULTIRACIAL SUBJECTS REALLY CHALLENGE RACE?: MIXED RACE ASIANS IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE CARIBBEAN; 35 SERVANTS OF CULTURE: THE SYMBOLIC ROLE OF MIXED-RACE ASIANS IN AMERICAN DISCOURSE; 36 Y TÚ ¿QUÉ? (Y2K): LATINO HISTORY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Description / Table of Contents:
37 THE NEW MILLENNIUM: TOWARD A NEW MASTER RACIAL PROJECT AND EPILOGUE: BEYOND BLACK OR WHITE: A NEW UNITED STATES RACIAL PROJECT
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