Biracial in America : forming and performing racial identity /
"Elected in 2008, Barack Obama made history as the first African American President of the United States. Though recognized as the son of his white Kansas-born mother and his Kenyan father, the media and public have nonetheless pigeonholed him as black, and he too self-identifies as such. Obama...
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Boosk,
c2011.
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Table of Contents:
- A Note on Terminology
- Chapter 1: Questions of Identity
- Chapter 2: Black and White in America: Then and Now
- Chapter 3: "From the Outside Looking In" Reflected Appraisals and the One Drop Rule
- Chapter 4: "Blacks Accept Me More Easily Than White": The Push and Pull of Day-To Day Interaction
- Chapter 5: "I'm Not Like then at All": Social Comparisons and Social Networks
- Chapter 6: "I Was Like Superman and Clark Kent": Strategies and Motivations O Identity Work
- Chapter 7: Concluding Thoughts
- Appendix A: Interview Schedule
- Appendix B: profile of the Research Sample
- Appendix C: Further Reading
- References.