Twenty-First Century Color Lines

Multiracial Change in Contemporary America

Andrew Grant-Thomas, Gary Orfield, Andrew Grant-Thomas, Gary Orfield

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9781592136926, 9781592136919
• eBook ISBN: 9781592136933
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Civil Rights in Politics
• Index: Social Sciences

The result of work initiated by the Harvard Civil Rights Project, this collection provides an excellent overview of the contemporary racial and ethnic terrain in the United States. The well-respected contributors to Twenty-First Century Color Lines combine theoretical and empirical perspectives, answering fundamental questions about the present and future of multiracialism in the United States: How are racial and ethnic identities promoted and defended across a spectrum of social, geopolitical and cultural contexts? What do two generations of demographic and social shifts around issues of race look like "on the ground?" What are the socio-cultural implications of changing demographics in the U.S.? And what do the answers to these questions portend for our multiracial future?

This illuminating book addresses issues of work, education, family life and nationality for different ethnic groups, including Asians and Latinos as well as African Americans and whites. Such diversity, gathered here in one volume, provides new perspectives on ethnicity in a society marked by profound racial transformations.

Contributors: Luis A. Avilés, Juan Carlos Martínez-Cruzado, Nilanjana Dasgupta, Christina Gómez, Gerald Gurin, Patricia Gurin, Anthony Kwame Harrison, Maria-Rosario Jackson, John Matlock, Nancy McArdle, John Mollenkopf, john a. powell, Doris Ramírez, David Roediger, Anayra Santory-Jorge, Jiannbin Lee Shiao, Mia H. Tuan, Katrina Wade-Golden and the editors.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword by Christopher Edley Jr.
• Introduction: The Past as Racial Prologue? by Andrew Grant-Thomas
• 1 Color Lines in a Multiracial Nation: An Institutional Demographic Overview of the United States in the Twenty-First Century by Nancy McArdle
• PART I Foundations of Multiracial Inequality
• 2 Color Lines in the Mind: Implicit Prejudice, Discrimination, and the Potential for Change by Nilanjana Dasgupta
• 3 Structural Racism and Color Lines in the United States by Andrew Grant-Thomas and John A. Powell
• PART II Ambiguities of Racial and Ethnic Identity
• 4 “We Are Not Like Them”: Social Distancing and Realignment in the U.S. Latino Racial Hierarchy by Christina Gomez
• 5 The Paradox of the Puerto Rican Race: The Interplay of Racism and Nationalism under U.S. Colonialism by Anayra O. Santory-Jorge, Luis A. Aviles, Juan Carlos Martinez-Cruzado, and Doris Ramirez
• 6 Shared Fates in Asian Transracial Adoption: Korean Adoptee Experiences of Difference in Their Families by Jiannbin Lee Shiao and Mia H. Tuan
• PART III Negotiating Change: Group Interaction on the Ground
• 7 Multiracial Youth Scenes and the Dynamics of Race: New Approaches to Racialization within the Bay Area Hip Hop Underground by Anthony Kwame Harrison
• 8 Toward Diversity That Works: Building Communities through Arts and Culture by Maria Rosario Jackson
• 9 Commonality in Values across the Racial Divide by Patricia Gurin, Gerald Gurin, John Matlock, and Katrina Wade-Golden
• 10 Immigrant Political Empowerment in New York and Los Angeles by John Mollenkopf
• PART IV The Road Ahead?
• 11 To Be Continued? The “Problem of the Color Line” in the Twenty-First Century by David Roediger
• Conclusion: Color Lines, the New Society, and the Responsibility of Scholars by Gary Orfield
• Contributors
• Index