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Rainier Spencer, Professor
Dr. Spencer


Interests: Afro-American studies, racial identity, multiracial identity politics, federal racial categorization.

Afro-American Studies seeks to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the Afro-American journey, and of that journey’s absolute inseparability from the larger panorama of American history, culture, and national life.

Selected Publications

2008. Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. S.v. Multiracial Identity.

2006
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Challenging Multiracial Identity. Lynne Rienner.

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2006. New Racial Identities, Old Arguments: Continuing Biological Reification. Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the "Color Blind" Era, 83-102. David L. Brunsma, ed. Boulder CO:Lynne Reinner Publishers.

2004
. Assessing Multiracial Identity Theory and Politics: The Challenge of Hypodescent. Ethnicities 4(3): 357-379.

2004. Beyond Pathology and Cheerleading: Insurgency, Dissolution, and Complicity in the Multiracial Idea. The Politics of Multiracialism: Challenging Racial Thinking, 101-124. Heather M. Dalmage, ed. Albany: State University of New York Press.

2003. Census 2000: Assessments in Significance. New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century, 99-110. Loretta Winters and Herman DeBose, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

2000. Assessing Issues of Race and Mixed Race in Afrocentric Discourse. Passages: Interdisciplinary Journal of Global Studies 2(2): 186-207.

1999. Spurious Issues: Race and Multiracial Identity Politics in the United States. Westview.

1997. Race and Mixed-Race: A Personal Tour. As We Are Now: MixBlood Essays on Race and Identity, 126-139. W. S. Penn, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press.


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