| Who is Black?: One Nation's Definition Anniversary Edition Contributor(s): Davis, F. James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0271021721 ISBN-13: 9780271021720 Publisher: Penn State University Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2001 Annotation: Reprinted many times since its first publication in 1991, Who Is Black? has become a staple in college classrooms throughout the United States, helping students understand this nation's history of miscegenation and the role that the "one-drop rule" has played in it. In this special anniversary edition, the author brings the story up to date in an epilogue. There he highlights some revealing responses to Who Is Black? and examines recent challenges to the one-drop rule, including the multiracial identity movement and a significant change in the census classification of racial and ethnic groups. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 2001036650 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.04" W x 9" (0.85 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume is the Tenth Anniversary Edition of a book that was honored in 1992 as an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States. Reprinted many times since its first publication in 1991, Who Is Black? has become a staple in college classrooms throughout the United States, helping students understand this nation's history of miscegenation and the role that the one-drop rule has played in it. In this special anniversary edition, the author brings the story up to date in an epilogue. There he highlights some revealing responses to Who Is Black? and examines recent challenges to the one-drop rule, including the multiracial identity movement and a significant change in the census classification of racial and ethnic groups. |
Contributor Bio(s): Davis, F. James: - F. James Davis is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Illinois State University and the author of Society and the Law (1962), Social Problems (1970), and Minority-Dominant Relations (1978). |