{"product_id":"troubling-the-family-habiba-ibrahim-9780816679188","title":"Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTroubling the Family\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the emergence of multiracialism during the 1990s was determined by underlying and unacknowledged gender norms. Opening with a germinal moment for multiracialism--the seemingly massive and instantaneous popular appearance of Tiger Woods in 1997--Habiba Ibrahim examines how the shifting status of racial hero for both black and multiracial communities makes sense only by means of an account of masculinity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIbrahim looks across historical events and memoirs--beginning with the \u003ci\u003eLoving v. Virginia\u003c\/i\u003e case in 1967 when miscegenation laws were struck down--to reveal that gender was the starting point of an analytics that made categorical multiracialism, and multiracial politics, possible. Producing a genealogy of multiracialism's gendered basis allows Ibrahim to focus on a range of stakeholders whose interests often ran against the grain of what the multiracial movement of the 1990s often privileged: the sanctity of the heteronormative family, the labor of child rearing, and more precise forms of racial tabulation--all of which, when taken together, could form the basis for creating so-called neutral personhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIbrahim concludes with a consideration of Barack Obama as a representation of the resurrection of the assurance that multiracialism extended into the 2000s: a version of personhood with no memory of its own gendered legacy, and with no self-account of how it became so masculine that it can at once fill the position of political leader and the promise of the end of politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Habiba Ibrahim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816679185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816679188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/14\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Habiba Ibrahim","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926489104639,"sku":"9780816679188","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f2c46e83-7697-4df0-97d3-ba5dac9454cf.jpg?v=1681083356","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/troubling-the-family-habiba-ibrahim-9780816679188","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}