Troubling the family : the promise of personhood and the rise of multiracialism

Troubling the family : the promise of personhood and the rise of multiracialism /

Troubling the Family argues that the emergence of multiracialism during the 1990s was determined by underlying and unacknowledged gender norms. Opening with a germinal moment for multiracialism -- the seemingly instantaneous popular appearance of Tiger Woods -- Habiba Ibrahim examines how the shifti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ibrahim, Habiba (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2012.
Series:Difference incorporated.
Subjects:
Racially mixed children > United States.
Racially mixed people > United States.
Families > United States.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Reference.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Families
Racially mixed children
Racially mixed people
United States
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
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Summary:Troubling the Family argues that the emergence of multiracialism during the 1990s was determined by underlying and unacknowledged gender norms. Opening with a germinal moment for multiracialism -- the seemingly instantaneous popular appearance of Tiger Woods -- Habiba Ibrahim examines how the shifting status of racial hero for black and multiracial communities makes sense only by means of an account of masculinity.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxxi, 218 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780816682805
0816682801
9781452948331
145294833X

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