Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism

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Troubling the Family argues that the emergence of multiracialism during the 1990s was determined by underlying and unacknowledged gender norms. Opening with a germinal moment for multiracialismthe popular appearance of Tiger Woods in 1997Habiba Ibrahim examines how the shifting status of racial hero makes sense only by means of an account of masculinity.

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"This is one of the most refreshing and provocative accounts of gender and its influence upon the multicultural that I have seen in over a decade. Habiba Ibrahims work reboots our common knowledge of both time and place. A must read for American Studies scholars." Sharon P. Holland, Duke University

"Troubling the Family brilliantly reconfigures the historiography of mixed race identity in the U.S. and upends all usual stories explaining the rise in mixed race identity. Ibrahims powerful ability to identify and analyze diverse cultural and literary forms that are actively reshaping both racial understandings and political landscapes makes her one of the most interesting and innovative young scholars in African American and mixed race studies."Michele Elam, Stanford University
"Ibrahim provides an incredibly rich, black feminist intervention by revealing the unacknowledged ways in which racialized gender norms have conditioned discourses of interracial familiality and mixed race. She illustrates her thesis skillfully across a diversity of material and frames the rise of multiracialism within the temporal marks of 1997 and 2007." Amerikastudien / American Studies

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Habiba Ibrahim is assistant professor of English at the University of Washington.