Book Title; Contents; 1-Introduction; Statement of the Problem; Methodology; Approaching Race; Theoretical Framework; Notes; 2-Internal Racial Identity; The Fluidity of Identity; Assimilation and Racial Identity; (Re)Creating Racial Categories and the Establishment of Racial Logic; The Influences of Phenotype on Internal Racial Identity; A Symbolic Pan-Ethnic Asian Identity?; Strategic Race: Seeing Internal Racial Identity as Strategic; Establishing Racial Hierarchy: Revisiting the "What are you?" Question; Conclusion; Notes; 3-External Racial Identity
On Being Asian, White, Black, or MultiracialConstructing Race Through Physical Location; Constructing Race Through Language; Cultural Attributes Versus Racial Stereotypes; What About the food?; Conclusion; 4-The External Context of Racial Identity Formation; Racial Effects on Attitude and Behavior Receptional Assimilation; "You're Not Black Enough": Asian/Black People Who Do Not Act Black; "You're Not Black Enough," Part 2: Asian/Black People Who Do Not Look Black; Conclusion; 5-Learning Racial Hierarchy; Interracial Marriage and the Assimilation Process; It Starts in the Home
Establishing a Foreign-born Asian Female/Military American Male ContextThe Difference Between White and Black Mixed Children; "It's Just Different": Interracial Marriages and the Reformation of the Color Line; Conclusion; Notes; 6-Conclusion; Appendix A: How the Sample was Generated; Appendix B: Interview Questionsfor Multiracial Persons; Appendix C: Interview Questionsfor Interracially Married Parent; Bibliography; Index; About the Book
Summary
What does it mean for an Asian American to be part white-or part black? Bruce Hoskins probes the experience of biracial Asian Americans, revealing the ways that our discourse about multiracial identities too often reinforces racial hierarchies. Hoskins explores the everyday lives of people of Asian/white and Asian/black heritage to uncover the role of our society's white-black continuum in shaping racial identity. Mixing intimate personal stories with cutting-edge theoretical analysis, he directly confronts the notion that multiracial identity provides an easy solution for our society's racial
