RacialismPosted in Excerpts/Quotes on 2009-08-26 01:59Z by Steven |
“If, however, one is critical of race, it then becomes apparent that there is an inherent contradiction in the idea of multiraciality; for if race is a myth, then multirace must of necessity be a myth as well. Yet how is one to self-identify, to assert an identity, when the only language seeming available is infused with the terminology of racialism? The answer lies in challenging rather than acceding to the hemogeny of race and rejecting the premise that personal identity need be race based to begin with.“
Rainier Spencer, Spurious Isses: Race and Multiracial Identity Politics in the United States, p. 89