Claiming Place: Biracial Young Adults of the Post-Civil Rights Era (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780897897600)

Born in the 1960s, the middle-class Biracial Americans of this study are part of a transitional cohort between the hidden biracial generations of the past and the visible blended generations of the future. As individuals, they have variously dealt with their ambiguous status in American society; as a generation, they share common existential realities in relation to White culture.

During the last decade of the 20th century public awareness of mixed race Americans increased significantly, in no small part because there has been a substantial increase in interracial marriages and offspring since 1960. This study, based on ethnographic interviews, provides an historical overview of the study of Biracial Americans in the social sciences, a sociological profile of project participants, sociocultural discussions of family and race as well as racial identity choices, and examinations of racial realities in adult lives and of recurrent systemic and personal life themes. The textual part of the book demonstrates the diversity of perception and experience regarding race and identity of these biracial young adults. The Epilogue not only reviews major findings pertaining to this transitional generation of Biracial Americans but discusses biraciality and the deconstruction of race in contemporary American society. An extensive bibliography of popular and scholarly sources concludes the book.

Author: Marion Kilson
ISBN-10: 0897897609
ISBN-13: 9780897897600
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2000
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.36w x 0.82d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2001 pg. 44
Choice 07/01/2001 pg. 2042
Multicultural Review 12/01/2001 pg. 88