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Rethinking Rachel Doležal and transracial theory / Molly Littlewood McKibbin.

9783030862787 (electronic bk.)
303086278X (electronic bk.)
9783030862770
3030862771

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

©2021

English

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10.1007/978-3-030-86278-7 doi

HT1523 .M35 2021

305.80973

Taking a deeply informed stance on the possibilities that arise when taking seriously the fissures in race and racial identity, McKibbin does not mince words when it comes to advocating for a more complex assessment of race. This book is indispensable for the contemporary moment. - Marquis Bey, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English, Northwestern University McKibbin is a courageous thinker. She takes on a fraught topic about which advocates and opponents are screaming past each other, and deals with it carefully, calmly, methodically. - Paul Spickard, Distinguished Professor of History, Black Studies, and Asian American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Stimulating and provocative. This is an important work that deserves attention. - Joseph L. Graves Jr, author of The Emperors New Clothes (2001); The Race Myth (2005); Racism, Not Race (2021, co-author) Race remains a site for struggle and liberation as this book so clearly demonstrates. - Rinaldo Walcott, author of The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom Using real-life examples, this book asks readers to reflect on how weas an academic communitythink and talk about race and racial identity in twenty-first-century America. One of these examples, Rachel Dolezal, provides a springboard for an examination of the state of our discourse around changeable racial identity and the potential for "transracialism." An analysis of how we are theorizing transracial identity (as opposed to an argument for/against it), this study detects some omissions and problems that are becoming evident as we establish transracial theory and suggests ways to further develop our thinking and avoid missteps. Intended for academics and thinkers familiar with conversations about identity and/or race, Rethinking Rachel Dolezal and Transracial Theory helps shape the theorization of "transracialism" in its formative stages. Molly Littlewood McKibbin, PhD, specializes in Black Literatures and Critical Race Theory. She is the author of Shades of Gray: Writing the New American Multiracialism and work published in African American Review, Callaloo, the Journal of Black Studies, and the Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies

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