Shades of gray : writing the new American multiracialism

Shades of gray : writing the new American multiracialism / Molly Littlewood McKibbin.

"In Shades of Gray Molly Littlewood McKibbin offers a social and literary history of multiracialism in the twentieth-century United States. She examines the African American and white racial binary in contemporary multiracial literature to reveal the tensions and struggles of multiracialism in...

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Main Author: McKibbin, Molly Littlewood (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Series:Borderlands and transcultural studies.
Subjects:
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Racially mixed people in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Race in literature.
Racially mixed people > Race identity > United States.
United States > Race relations > History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Race and mixed race in the United States
  • "What are you, anyway?": The social context of racial identity
  • Wonders of the invisible race: negotiating whiteness
  • "Black like me": negotiating Blackness
  • Mixed ethnicity: multiracialism as multicultural identity
  • Conclusion: The (continuing) work of multiracial literature.

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