Asian American Racial Realities in Black and White:

What does it mean for an Asian American to be part white-or part black? Bruce Hoskins probes the experience of biracial Asian Americans, revealing the ways that our discourse about multiracial identities too often reinforces racial hierarchies. Hoskins explores the everyday lives of people of Asian/...

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Main Author: Hoskins, Bruce Calvin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder Lynne Rienner Publishers [2011]
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Summary:What does it mean for an Asian American to be part white-or part black? Bruce Hoskins probes the experience of biracial Asian Americans, revealing the ways that our discourse about multiracial identities too often reinforces racial hierarchies. Hoskins explores the everyday lives of people of Asian/white and Asian/black heritage to uncover the role of our society's white-black continuum in shaping racial identity. Mixing intimate personal stories with cutting-edge theoretical analysis, he directly confronts the notion that multiracial identity provides an easy solution for our society's racial stratification
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (164 pages)
ISBN:9781935049708
DOI:10.1515/9781935049708

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