Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America

by Kerry Ann Rockquemore, David L. Brunsma, David L. Brunsma

Book Overview

The urgent debate over a multiracial category in the 2000 census forced the nation to reflect upon the important questions of what it means to construct and maintain a racial identity. Using in-depth interviews and survey data, Beyond Black documents how biracial people develop many different racial identities and how these self-understandings are derived from historical and contemporary social, cultural, interactional, and psychological processes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742560554
• ISBN13: 9780742560550
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.2"