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In 2000, the U.S. Census began allowing self-identification as more than one race. From interviews in the late 1990s with older persons of mixed African American/white and Asian/white heritage who had been regarded as racially "other," and her own experience as a Japanese-American, Tashiro (emeritus, nursing, U. of Washington), examines how gender, class, family history, generation, and discriminatory laws affected how they were identified and the degree to which they felt that they fit in. Lastly, she discusses commonalities transcending the differences in their experiences, e.g., feeling comfortable with a broader range of people and situations than their monoracial counterparts--though often at the cost of a lack of strong ties to a clearly-defined community. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
