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Rainier Spencer,
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Interests: Afro-American studies, racial identity,
multiracial identity politics, federal racial
categorization.
Afro-American Studies seeks to provide students with an
in-depth understanding of the Afro-American journey, and of
that journey’s absolute inseparability from the larger
panorama of American history, culture, and national life.
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Selected Publications
- 2006. Challenging
Multiracial Identity. Lynne
Rienner.
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2006. New Racial
Identities, Old Arguments: Continuing Biological
Reification. Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities
in the "Color Blind" Era, 83-102. David
L. Brunsma, ed. Boulder CO:Lynne Reinner Publishers.
- 2004. Assessing
Multiracial Identity Theory and Politics: The Challenge
of Hypodescent. Ethnicities 4/3: 357-379.
- 2004. Beyond Pathology and
Cheerleading: Insurgency, Dissolution, and Complicity in
the Multiracial Idea. The Politics of
Multiracialism: Challenging Racial Thinking,
101-124. Heather M. Dalmage, ed. Albany: State
University of New York Press.
- 2003. Census 2000:
Assessments in Significance. New Faces in a Changing
America: Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century,
99-110. Loretta Winters and Herman DeBose, eds. Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- 2000. Assessing Issues of
Race and Mixed Race in Afrocentric Discourse. Passages:
Interdisciplinary Journal of Global Studies 2/2:
186-207.
- 1999.
Spurious Issues: Race and Multiracial Identity
Politics in the United States. Westview.
- 1997. Race and Mixed-Race:
A Personal Tour. As We Are Now: MixBlood Essays on
Race and Identity, 126-139. W. S. Penn, ed.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
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