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MULTIRACIAL POLITICS OR THE POLITICS OF BEING MULTIRACIAL?:
RACIAL THEORY, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, AND SOCIO-POLITICAL
PARTICIPATION IN A CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
by
Jungmiwha Suk Bullock
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY)
August 2010
Copyright 2010 Jungmiwha Suk Bullock
Object Description
| Title | Multiracial politics or the politics of being multiracial ?: Racial theory, civic engagement, and socio-political participation in a contemporary society |
| Author | Bullock, Jungmiwha Suk |
| Author email | jbullock@usc.edu; jummyb@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | American Studies & Ethnicity |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-06-09 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-08-20 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Saito, Leland |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Wong, Janelle Messner, Michael |
| Abstract | This dissertation examines the impacts of historical and contemporary racial theories, socio-political movements, and grassroots mobilization efforts of community-based organizations in transforming the politics to define multiracial identity and the “two or more races” population in the United States. Using an interdisciplinary and mixed methods research approach, I investigate the shifting and contested ways the multiracial population is defined in public and private discourses, paying particular attention to the complexities this community raises within and among monoracial identified communities. Examining the multiracial population in the U.S. has a significant and critical place in the larger trajectory of social scientific scholarship on race, gender, class, and other intersecting identities. This body of research counters the argument that multiple identity formation is inconsequential to theory, civic engagement, and socio-political participation in a contemporary society. This study urges scholars to (re)examine how race and ethnicity continues to be framed, analyzed, interrogated, and understood in ways that are restricted by historically racist/racialized moments that still linger today. These moments, I argue, are sharpened and more pronounced when centering the politics of what it means to claim a multiracial identity in America in the twenty-first century.; Three primary research questions examined in this study are: 1) How do we define the multiracial population in the United States and what do these definitions offer about racial and ethnic ideologies and the future for public policy post-Census 2000?; 2) What critical insights can centering the experiences of multiracial Americans and the efforts to define them on the local, state, and/or national levels (publicly and privately), offer for other groups in American society?; and 3) Under what conditions is it possible to politically mobilize around this shifting and contested category and what are the unmet needs of this emerging population?; The theoretical model for this study was Grounded Theory. Principle data collection methods were the “insider-outsider” and case study research approaches using extensive face-to-face audio and/or photographed interviews; participant and field observations of key local, state, and national events, including U.S. Census proceedings and California Senate Judiciary hearings; and content analysis of primary and secondary documents, including media coverage and organizational archives. Data was collected between 2004 and 2009 in Los Angeles, Washington DC, Chicago, New York, and Sacramento. These cities exhibited the most heightened multiracial activity across the country in this timeframe. I also investigated exclusive, never before documented, behind the scenes initiatives to recognize the unmet needs of this emerging population through an in-depth case study of the Association of MultiEthnic Americans (AMEA)—one of the oldest leading national advocacy organizations for multiracial, multiethnic, and transracially adopted individuals, families, organizations, and allies. |
| Keyword | racial theory; multiracial politics; multiracial identity; racial and ethnic identity formation; racial formation theory; race, ethnicity, and culture; interracial; political participation; civic engagement; social movements; race and politics in the 21st century; hegemony; racial and ethnic discourse; mixed race; intersectionality; United States census; Association of MultiEthnic Americans; AMEA; transracial adoption; community based organizing; grassroots mobilization |
| Geographic subject | capitals: District of Columbia |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles; Sacramento; Chicago; New York |
| Geographic subject (state) | California; Illinois; New York |
| Coverage date | 2004/2009 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3409 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Bullock, Jungmiwha Suk |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Bullock-3771 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume17/etd-Bullock-3771.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | MULTIRACIAL POLITICS OR THE POLITICS OF BEING MULTIRACIAL?: RACIAL THEORY, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, AND SOCIO-POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN A CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY by Jungmiwha Suk Bullock A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY) August 2010 Copyright 2010 Jungmiwha Suk Bullock |
