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Multiracialism and Its Discontents:
A Comparative Analysis of Asian-White and Black-White Multiracials
A Comparative Analysis of Asian-White and Black-White Multiracials
My research interests address race, racism, multiracial identity/multiracialism, inequality, intersectional analysis, and qualitative methods. My book, entitled Multiracialism and Its Discontents: A Comparative Analysis of Asian-White and Black-White Multiracials, addresses how racial identities and racial discrimination are evolving in the United States. The book is based on a unique comparison of how two groups of multiracials, Asian-Whites and Black-Whites, vary in their multiracial experience in the United States. Through a qualitative analysis of seventy multiracials, the book reveals the interacting forces among multiracials, racial ideologies, and the racial hierarchy. I explain how multiracialism is maturing into a dominant force in the racial landscape and those who identify as mixed-race perceive common bonds among themselves. This finding, however, is countered with important insights into how persisting racial discrimination and racist ideologies inhibit multiracialism from leading to racial reconciliation.
On WVTF/Radio IQ: Does Growing Population of Multiracial Kids Portend a Future with Less Racism?
Reviews
In Multiracialism and Its Discontents: A Comparative Analysis of Asian-White and Black-White Multiracials, Hephzibah V. Strmic-Pawl breaks new ground in critical race and multiracial scholarship. She provides empirical evidence of both the reality of multiracialism and the diversity of multiracial experiences in the U.S. In doing so, she shows how multiracialism challenges and reconfigures but does not dismantle the racial hierarchy. This bookis an immensely valuable read for anyone interested in better understanding multiracialisms, racialization, and the persistence of racism in the United States today.
— Kathleen Odell Korgen, William Paterson University
The mixed-race population in the United States stands around seven percent. This multiracial category is growing three times faster than the general population. One in seven newlyweds are interracial. Yet, the multiracial category is understudied. Addressing this blind spot is Hephzibah V. Strmic-Pawl's needed and outstanding comparative study that focuses on how this increasingly acknowledged category can affect race relations and the situational and positional identity options used by those who self-identify as being from more than one race.
— Charles A. Gallagher, La Salle University
On WVTF/Radio IQ: Does Growing Population of Multiracial Kids Portend a Future with Less Racism?
Reviews
In Multiracialism and Its Discontents: A Comparative Analysis of Asian-White and Black-White Multiracials, Hephzibah V. Strmic-Pawl breaks new ground in critical race and multiracial scholarship. She provides empirical evidence of both the reality of multiracialism and the diversity of multiracial experiences in the U.S. In doing so, she shows how multiracialism challenges and reconfigures but does not dismantle the racial hierarchy. This bookis an immensely valuable read for anyone interested in better understanding multiracialisms, racialization, and the persistence of racism in the United States today.
— Kathleen Odell Korgen, William Paterson University
The mixed-race population in the United States stands around seven percent. This multiracial category is growing three times faster than the general population. One in seven newlyweds are interracial. Yet, the multiracial category is understudied. Addressing this blind spot is Hephzibah V. Strmic-Pawl's needed and outstanding comparative study that focuses on how this increasingly acknowledged category can affect race relations and the situational and positional identity options used by those who self-identify as being from more than one race.
— Charles A. Gallagher, La Salle University
Other Selected Publications
Strmic-Pawl, Hephzibah. 2015. "More Than a Knapsack: The White Supremacy Flower as a New Model for Teaching Racism." Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 1(1): 192-197.
- This article has instructors as the target audience. Another version of this article is available for students as the target audience and is a chapter in my co-edited volume, Race and Ethnicity: Constancy in Change. The White Supremacy Flower: A Model for Understanding Racism
Strmic-Pawl, Hephzibah. 2014. “The Influences Affecting and the Influential Effects of Multiracials: Multiracialism and Stratification.” Sociology Compass. 8(1): 63-77.
Strmic-Pawl, Hephzibah. 2014. “Orange in Black and White: Teaching About Race, Gender, and Sexuality on TV.” The Badass Sociologist: Society for the Study of Social Problems, Teaching Social Problems Newsletter.
Strmic-Pawl, Hephzibah. 2012. “Systems of Inequality- Syllabus” TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology.
Strmic-Pawl, H. & P. Leffler. 2011. “Black Families and Fostering of Leadership.” Ethnicities. 11(2): 139-162.
Strmic Pawl.Ethnicities.pdf