Beyond Black

Kerry Ann Rockquemore is associate professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and coauthor of Raising Biracial Children.David L. Brunsma is associate professor of sociology at the University of Missouri-Columbia and coeditor of The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe.

• Chapter 1 List of Tables and FiguresChapter 2 PrefaceChapter 3 AcknowledgementsChapter 4 ForewordChapter 5 Chapter 1: Who is Black? Flux and Change in American Racial IdentityChapter 6 Chapter 2: Biracial Identity Research: Past and PresentChapter 7 Chapter 3: What it Means to be Mixed-Race in Post-Civil Rights AmericaChapter 8 Chapter 4 : Sociological Factors Influencing Biracial IdentityChapter 9 Chapter 5: The Color Complex: Appearances and Multiracial IdentityChapter 10 Chapter 6: Who is Black Today and Who Will be Black Tomorrow?Chapter 11 EndnotesChapter 12 AppendicesChapter 13 ReferencesChapter 14 Index

Beyond Black is a theoretically innovative and methodologically perceptive analysis of how race is understood, interpreted, and managed in the post-Civil Rights United States. Through their interdisciplinary approach, Brunsma and Rockquemore create a standout book in multiracial literature. Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America is essential reading for understanding race.