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Subject(s)

• Racism—United States—History [Browse]
• Multiracial people—Race identity—United States [Browse]
• African Americans—Race identity [Browse]
• White people—Race identity—United States [Browse]
• Eurocentrism—History [Browse]
• United States—Race relations [Browse]

Summary note

In the United States, anyone with even a trace of African American ancestry has been considered black. Even as the twenty-first century opens, a racial hierarchy still prevents people of color, including individuals of mixed race, from enjoying the same privileges as Euro-Americans. In this book, G. Reginald Daniel argues that we are at a cross-roads, with members of a new multiracial movement pointing the way toward equality.Tracing the centuries-long evolution of Eurocentrism, a concept geared to protecting white racial purity and social privilege, Daniel shows how race has been...

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-241) and index.

Copyright note

All rights reserved.

Language note

English

Contents

• Eurocentrism: the origin of the master racial project
• Either black or white: the United States and the binary racial project
• White by definition: multiracial identity and the binary racial project
• Black by law: multiracial identity and the ternary racial project
• The new multiracial identity: both black and white
• The new multiracial identity: neither black nor white
• Black by popular demand: multiracial identity and the decennial census
• The illusion of inclusion: from white domination to white hegemony
• The new millennium: toward a new master racial project.

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ISBN

• 9786612701146
• 9781439904831
• 1439904839
• 9781282701144
• 1282701142

OCLC

• 652654412
• 826516285

Hdl

• 2027/heb34619

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