INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. I Issues and Trends
7. 1. AMERICAN MIXED RACE The United States 2000 Census and Related Issues 13
8. 2.MISCEG-NARRATIONS 31
9. II Multiracial Subjects
10. 3. A PASSIONATE OCCUPANT OF THE TRANSNATIONAL TRANSIT LOUNGE 73
11. 4. MISCEGENATION AND ME 91
12. 5.“WHAT IS SHE ANYWAY?” Rearranging Bodily Mythologies 107
13. 6. RESEMBLANCE 117
14. 7. “BROWN LIKE ME” Explorations of a Shifting Self 123
15. 8.TOWARD A MULTIETHNIC CARTOGRAPHY Multiethnic Identity, Monoracial Cultural Logic, and Popular Culture 141
16. 9. KEEPING UP APPEARANCES Ethnic Alien-Nation in Female Solo Performance 163
17. 10.AGAINST ERASURE The Multiracial Voice in Cherríe Moraga’s Loving in the War Years 181
18. ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 207