{"product_id":"troubling-the-family-the-promise-of-personhood-and-the-rise-of-multiracialism-paperback","title":"Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHabiba Ibrahim\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTroubling the Family\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the emergence of multiracialism during the 1990s was determined by underlying and unacknowledged gender norms. Opening with a germinal moment for multiracialism-the seemingly massive and instantaneous popular appearance of Tiger Woods in 1997-Habiba 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIbrahim looks across historical events and memoirs-beginning with the \u003ci\u003eLoving v. Virginia\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIbrahim concludes with a consideration of Barack Obama as a representation of the resurrection of the assurance that multiracialism extended into the 2000s: a version of personhood with no memory of its own gendered legacy, and with no self-account of how it became so masculine that it can at once fill the position of political leader and the promise of the end of politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHabiba Ibrahim is assistant professor of English at the University of Washington.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 14, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722497003583,"sku":"9780816679188","price":50.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ac6b7f0cff82243ea8c9a2fd8944277d.webp?v=1765095955","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/troubling-the-family-the-promise-of-personhood-and-the-rise-of-multiracialism-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}