Mixing It Up

by Kwan, SanSan

• ISBN13: 9780292743458
• ISBN10: 0292743459
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-30
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

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. From Naomi Zack's "American Mixed Race: The United States 2000 Census and 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Naomi Zack
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(10)
SanSan Kwan and Kenneth Speirs
I. Issues and Trends	11	(60)
1. American Mixed Race: The United States 2000 Census and Related Issues	13	(18)
Naomi Zack
2. Misceg-narrations	31	(42)
Raquel Scherr Salgado
II. Multiracial Subjects	71	(136)
3. A Passionate Occupant of the Transnational Transit Lounge	73	(18)
Adrian Carton
4. Miscegenation and Me	91	(16)
Richard Guzman
5. "What Is She Anyway?": Rearranging Bodily Mythologies	107	(10)
Orathai Northern
6. Resemblance	117	(6)
Alice White
7. "Brown Like Me": Explorations of a Shifting Self	123	(18)
Stefanie Dunning
8. Toward a Multiethnic Cartography: Multiethnic Identity, Monoracial Cultural Logic, and Popular Culture	141	(22)
Evelyn Alsultany
9. Keeping Up Appearances: Ethnic Alien-Nation in Female Solo Performance	163	(18)
Cathy Irwin and Sean Metzger
10. Against Erasure:The Multiracial Voice in Cherrie Moraga's Loving in the War Years	181	(26)
Carole DeSouza
About the Contributors	207