Elected in 2008, Barack Obama made history as the first African
American president of the United States. Though recognized as the
son of a white Kansas-born mother and a black Kenyan father, the
media and public have nonetheless pigeonholed him as black, and he
too self-identifies as such. Obama's experience as an American with
black and white ancestry, though compelling because of his
celebrity, is not unique and raises several questions about the
growing number of black-white biracial Americans today: How are
they perceived by others with regard to race? How do they tend to
identify? And why? Taking a social psychological approach, Biracial
in America identifies influencing factors and several underlying
processes shaping multidimensional racial identities. This study
also investigates the ways in which biracial Americans perform race
in their day-to-day lives. One's race isn't simply something that
others prescribe onto the individual but something that individuals
"do." The strategies and motivations for performing black, white,
and biracial identities are explored.
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