Light, bright, and damned near white : biracial and triracial culture in America / Stephanie Rose Bird.
This volume explores the history, challenges, and psychological issues for - as well as prejudice against - people who have a mixed ancestry leaving them at neither end of the polar spectrum, neither Black nor White, but biracial or tri-racial.
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| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Praeger Publishers,
2009.
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| Series: | Race and ethnicity in psychology.
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Table of Contents:
- Premixed, pre-measured : populace of the new world
- Too light to be Black, too dark to be white : who is passing for what?
- Tan territory : separating fact, fiction, and fantasy
- Some of America's best known biracials and triracials across history
- Bricolage : constructed identities of Les gens de couleur libre and Cane River Negroes
- From Italian explorers to Sicilian Contandini and biracial royals : the mixed race experience as illustrated by the Italian diaspora
- Black, white, and red all over American history : coming together yet remaining apart
- When things really go wrong : Australia's Black/white debacle
- Profiles of triumph and courage
- Current events : in government, on campus, the internet, and in the news
- Tool box for change/conclusions.