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The personal is political -- Identity politics and the boundaries of belonging -- The substance of U.S. citizenship -- Racial identity, citizenship, and voting -- Ethnic identity : demography and destiny -- Gender, sexual identity, and the challenge of inclusion -- Religious identity and political presence -- Identity and political movements -- The inescapability of identity politics.

While pundits point to multiracial Americans as new evidence of a harmonious ethnic melting pot, in reality mixed race peoples have long existed in the United States. Rather than characterize multiracial Americans as a 'new' population, this text argues that instead we should view them as individuals who reflect a new culture of racial identification. Today, identities such as 'biracial' or 'swirlies' are evoked alongside those more established racial categories of white, black Asian and Latino. What is significant about multiracial identities is that they communicate an alternative viewpoint about race: that a person's preferred self-identification should be used to define a person's race.

URL del artículo en la web de la Revista: https://www.upo.es/revistas/index.php/ripp/article/view/1522 ; Es reseña de: Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq Eric Davis University of California Press, 2005 ; Universidad Pablo de Olavide

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note About Electronic Sources -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 The American Racial Paradigm -- Power, Purity, and Hypodescent -- Race and Racism: Connections and Disconnections -- American Racial History -- Science and Race -- The Social Reality View of Race -- Notes -- 2 Federal Racial Categorization -- Overview -- The History of Federal Racial Categorization -- Criticisms of Federal Racial Categorization During the OMB 15 Review -- Notes -- 3 Multiracial Identity -- Philosophical and Ideological Considerations -- Historical and Sociological Considerations -- Further Inconsistencies in the Multiracial Idea -- Notes -- 4 The Multiracial Category Initiative -- Overview -- Multiracial Category Proposals, 1993-1995 -- Afro-American Responses to a Federal Multiracial Category -- Interrogating the Self-Esteem Argument -- Racial Destabilization and Political Recognition -- The Multiracial Medical Fallacy -- Assessments -- Notes -- 5 Final Proposal, Final Recommendation, Final Decision -- Proposal -- Recommendation -- Decision -- Notes -- 6 Thinking About Transcending Race -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.