Making Multiracials - 9780804755467

Making MultiracialsState, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line\nAuthor(s): Kimberly McClain DaCosta\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804755467, 978-0804755467\nSynopsis\nWhen in 1997 golfer Tiger Woods described his racial identity on Oprah as \""cablinasian,\"" it struck many as idiosyncratic. But by 2003, a New York Times article declared the arrival of \""Generation [url] ethnically ambiguous. Multiracial had become a recognizable social category for a large group of Americans.\n\n Making Multiracials tells the story of the social movement that emerged around mixed race identity in the 1990s. Organizations for interracial families and mixed race peoplegroups once loosely organized and only partially aware of each otherproliferated. What was once ignored, treated as taboo, or just thought not to exist quickly became part of the cultural mainstream. \n\n How did this category of pe.