Interracial Families ─ Current Concepts and Controversies

Reprint of a 2008 text in which Yancey (sociology, U. of North Texas) and Lewis (sociology, U. of Texas, San Antonio) provide a student resource summarizing research on several important issues surrounding multiracial families in the U.S. Coverage includes an overview of intergroup relations and their impact on interethnic and interracial marriages; contemporary interracial dating; interracial marriage, and the perceptions of discrimination faced by interracial couples from their significant and generalized others; aspects and factors determining multiracial identity; the multiracial movement and the U.S. census controversy; the historical development and current laws on transracial adoption; and the future of multiracial families in the U.S. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

George Yancey (Ph.D., University of Texas) is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Texas. A recipient of $484,884 grant from the Lilly Endowment to study multiracial church congregations and their people, he has published articles in Journal of Intergroup Relations, The American Sociologist, Journal of Black Studies and Journal of Family Issues.

Richard Lewis, Jr. (Ph.D., Texas A&M University) is Special Assistant to the President of the University of Texas, San Antonio, and is Associate Professor of Sociology at the school.