Troubling the Family

The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism

University of Minnesota Press
Habiba Ibrahim
9780816679171 / 1 October 2012 / Hardback / 264pp / 216x140mm / RFB / AUD$143.00, NZD$207.00
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Troubling the Family 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 popular appearance of Tiger Woods in 1997—Habiba Ibrahim examines how the shifting status of racial hero makes sense only by means of an account of masculinity.

Contributor Bio

Habiba Ibrahim is assistant professor of English at the University of Washington.