the promise of personhood and the rise of multiracialism
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ibrahim, Habiba
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- etniciteit, witte vrouwen, zwarte vrouwen, gender, racisme, multicultureel, mannelijkheid, gezinnen, heteroseksualiteit
- Description
- This book argues that the emergence of multiracialism during the 1990s was determined by underlying and unacknowledged gender norms. Opening with a germinal moment for multiracialism Ibrahim examines how the shifting status of racial hero for both black and multiracial communities makes sense only by means of an account of masculinity. Ibrahim looks across historical events and memoirs—beginning with the Loving v. Virginia case in 1967 when miscegenation laws were struck down—to reveal that gender was the starting point of an analytics that made categorical multiracialism, and multiracial politics, possible. Producing a genealogy of multiracialism’s gendered basis allows Ibrahim to focus on a range of stakeholders whose interests often ran against the grain of what the multiracial movement of the 1990s often privileged: the sanctity of the heteronormative family, the labor of child rearing, and more precise forms of racial tabulation—all of which, when taken together, could form the basis for creating so-called neutral personhood.