Twenty-First Century Color Lines: Multiracial Change in Contemporary America

Exploring the multiracial, multiethnic

Table of Contents:
Foreword Introduction: The Past as Racial Prologue? 1. Color Lines in a Multiracial Nation: An Institutional Demographic Overview of the United States in the Twenty-First Century Part I: Foundations of Multiracial Inequality 2. Color Lines in the Mind: Implicit Prejudice, Discrimination, and the Potential for Change 3. Structural Racism and Color Lines in the United States 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 5. The Paradox of the Puerto Rican Race: The Interplay of Racism and Nationalism under U.S. Colonialism 6. Shared Fates in Asian Transracial Adoption: Korean Adoptee Experiences of Difference in Their Families 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 8. Toward Diversity That Works: Building Communities through Arts and Culture 9. Commonality in Values across the Racial Divide 10. Immigrant Political Empowerment in New York and Los Angeles Part IV: The Road Ahead? 11. To Be Continued? The "Problem of the Color Line" in the Twenty-First Century Conclusion: Color Lines, the New Society, and the Responsibility of Scholars Contributors Index

About the Author :
Andrew Grant-Thomas is Deputy Director of The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University Gary Orfield is Professor of Education, Law, Political Science and Urban Planning at The University of California, Los Angeles, and Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project.

Review :
"An excellent and timely collection on an important set of civil rights issues." Pedro Noguera, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York University "A useful edited collection of essays on diverse US racial-ethnic issues, this book grew out of a 2003 Harvard Civil Rights Project conference... These respected scholars provide a well-documented overview of US racial-ethnic patterns and conflicts. Summing Up: Recommended." Choice, Nov 2009 "By considering race in a range of novel ways, the chapters taken together present a fairly honest and rigorous inventory of the state of racial inequality in this country...If there is a theme to this eclectic mix, it is to highlight again and again the myriad ongoing racial disparities that shape this nation. As such, the volume is a good counterargument to those who would offer a celebratory narrative about the postracial nature of America's political and social structures... [It] make[s an] important contribution to the study of racial politics in the United States...[and] deserve[s] to be read." - Perspectives on Politics