The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America

by Jon Spencer, Richard E. Vander Ross, Richard E. van der Ross

Book Overview

With a foreword by Richard E. Vander Ross
In recent years, dramatic increases in racial intermarriage have given birth to a generation who refuse to be shoehorned into neat, pre-existing racial categories. Energized by a refusal to allow mixed-race people to be rendered invisible, this movement lobbies aggressively to have the category multiracial added to official racial classifications.
While applauding the self-awareness and activism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814780725
• ISBN13: 9780814780725
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"