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In the Shadow of Race:
Growing up As a Multiethnic, Multicultural, and "Multiracial"
American
By Teja Arboleda
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once it's not just black and white. In this compelling chronicle of his
journey through life as a multicultural and multiethnic American,
Teja Arboleda uniquely and personally challenges institutionalized
notions of race, culture, ethnicity, and class. Arboleda has presented
his story around the United States through his one-man
performance-lecture Ethnic Man!
Now, in this book, he fleshes out the depth of his experience as a
culturally and racially mixed American, illustrating throughout the
enigma of cultural and racial identity and the American identity crisis.
This book is utilized in hundreds of colleges around the nation, and
incorporated into many courses and curricula covering: sociology, race
and culture, diversity, multiculturalism and ethnic studies.
To facilitate its use as a course text, In the Shadow of Race is
offered with a Teacher's Guide written by Christine Clark, Ph.D.
Topics for discussion include:
- the social construction of race
- racial separatism vs. diversity
- racial, ethnic, and cultural identity development
- the politics of racial categorization
- mixed "race" peoples
- cultural identity vs. identity by heritage
- the concept of a "cultural home;" and
- changing identities within cultures
REVIEWS:
For the past many years, Arboleda has performed a highly successful
one-man show, 'Ethnic Man,' throughout the U.S. This volume is his
attempt to turn this largely autobiographical show into a book.
Engagingly written and highly accessible, In the Shadow of Race contains
many keen insights and useful observations...
–CHOICE
An engaging odyssey of an individual coming to terms with personal,
family, and social identity. This is more than one person's experience,
however, because Teja's story is the quintessential American dilemma,
perhaps with more wrinkles than most. It is a story of the heartbreak
and promise of the American dream.
–Sonia Nieto, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
Mr. Arboleda's personal odyssey is quite powerful!....with implications
for how we view other human beings, for understanding how cultural
traditions exist concurrently, and how they might evolve into 'new'
traditions....This book could take our thinking to the next level when
we talk about race relations.
–Thomassine Sellers, San Francisco State University
Finding the answers to the question 'Who am I?' and 'Where do I belong'
is a developmental process of finding one's identity....This does not
happen automatically....It is a transformation. This transformation
process of ethnic identity development is very charismatically told by
Teja Arboleda....The story is not just about race and skin color or
ethnicity, it is more importantly about how culture defines an
individual's style and perspective....The importance of this book is
that is demonstrates from a very personal perspective the search of
self-identity that most people of color, immigrants, and interracial
children are going through.
–Barbara J. Shade, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc. (Originally, Lawrence Earlbaum
Associates, Inc.)
Pub. Date: May 1998
ISBN-13: 9780805825749
280pp
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