But Don't Call Me White -- DEDICATION -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER 1: EXPOSING METHODS AND POSITIONALITY -- AUDIENCE -- PARTICIPANT SELECTION AND OVERVIEW -- INTERPRETIVIST, CONSTRUCTIVIST PARADIGM -- PROJECT GOALS: CRITICAL, SELF-REFLEXIVE ETHNOGRAPHY -- ORIGINAL RESEARCH QUESTIONS -- DATA COLLECTION METHODS -- DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION -- RESEARCH TRUSTWORTHINESS -- POSITIONALITY AND SUBJECTIVITY -- Hispanic Festival, Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1975 -- Middle School Locker Room, North Andover, Massachusetts, 1983 -- Women Writers Class, UCSC, 1988 Scene One -- Scene One -- Scene Two -- CHAPTER 2: RESISTING THEORETICAL DISEMBODIMENT: CLAIMING SPACE IN THE RESEARCH AND THEORIES CONVERSATIONS: Sociology, Hybridity, and Mixed Race Studies -- SITUATING THE RESEARCH WITHIN BOTH SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION -- RACE AND GENDER AS SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS -- The Social Construction of Race -- The Social Construction of Gender -- TRANSLOCATIONAL POSITIONALITY AND PERFORMATIVITY -- HYBRIDITY DISCOURSES -- History of the Term "Hybridity" -- The New Conception of Hybridity -- The New Hybridity and Mixed Race Women -- MIXED RACE THEORY AND RESEARCH -- Macro-Micro Analyzed Ethnographic Research -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 3: RACIAL AND ETHNIC POSITIONALITIES: Floating Around in the Borderlands -- SELF-POSITIONING THROUGH PARENTS -- WOMEN OF COLOR IDENTITIES AND HERITAGE OF COLOR IDENTITIES -- DEFINITELY NOT WHITE -- SHIFTS AND CHALLENGES TO IDENTITY -- INFLUENCES ON IDENTITY FORMATION/POSITIONALITIES -- CHAPTER 4: OUTSIDER/INSIDER: The Constraints of Negotiating Institutional Structures and Identity Challenges -- FACING THE "WHAT ARE YOU?" QUESTION -- EVEN FAMILY MEMBERS POSE CHALLENGES -- SCHOOL AND FRIENDS -- Gifted Classes -- Challenges by Teachers and the Institution.

Suffocating in Predominately White Schools and Harassment by Peers of Color -- Latinas and Language -- Outsider Positionalities -- WORK -- CONCLUSION -- Strangers -- Family -- School and Friends -- CHAPTER 5: CHAMELEONS: Claiming Agency through Fluid Identities and Learning to Live with Ambiguity -- I LOVE BEING MIXED -- FLUIDITY: MOVING BETWEEN MULTIPLE WORLDS AND CONNECTING TO VARIETIES OF PEOPLE -- LEARNING FLUIDITY -- CLAIMING SPACES IN MONORACIAL GROUPS -- LEARNING TO LIVE WITH AMBIGUITY -- OPEN-MINDED, CRITICAL THINKING -- CREATING MIXED RACE COMMUNITY -- COMFORTABLE SPACES -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 6: FORCED "PASSING": Being Perceived as White -- IMPOSED "PASSING" -- ALMOST ALWAYS ASSUMED TO BE WHITE -- FREQUENTLY PERCEIVED AS WHITE, BUT NOT ALWAYS -- RARELY, BUT SOMETIMES PERCEIVED TO BE WHITE -- NEVER ASSUMED TO BE WHITE -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 7: SECRET AGENT INSIDERS TO WHITE PEOPLE: Disdaining, Denying, and Reconciling Whiteness -- CONNECTION TO WHITENESS -- CULTURAL WHITENESS AND OUR LIVES: LIKE HAVING A RELATIVE WHO'S A CRACKHEAD THAT YOU LOVE ANYWAY -- THE PERVASIVENESS OF CULTURAL WHITENESS -- EXAMINING WHITE PRIVILEGE -- CONCLUSION -- Cultural Whiteness for Mixed Race Women as it Relates to the Culture of Power -- Cultural Whiteness for Mixed Race Women as it Relates to Critical Whiteness Theory -- Breaking the Binaries of Theoretical Frameworks Related to the Politics of Race -- CHAPTER 8: BRIDGE BUILDERS, TRANSLATORS, AND ALLIES: The Responsibility, Burden, and Privilege of Educating Others -- BURDEN OF EDUCATING IN A WAY THAT WHITE PEOPLE CAN HEAR -- BELIEF IN CHANGE AND SKEPTICISM -- THAT'S THEIR PROBLEM OR I SHOULD GET PAID FOR IT -- A RESPONSIBILITY AND A CALLING TO BE ALLIES, EDUCATORS, AND BRIDGE BUILDERS -- TEACHING PEOPLE WE LOVE -- NOT NECESSARILY PREPARED TO EDUCATE -- CONCLUSION.

CHAPTER 9: EXPOSING ANALYSIS: Further Decoding Meaning -- EMBODIED HYBRIDITY: "WHAT VOTE DO THESE MIXED RACE WOMEN MAKE WITH THEIR BODIES?" -- MULTIPLE POSITIONALITIES: "WHAT VOTE DO THESE MIXED RACE WOMEN MAKE WITH THEIR BODIES?" -- Self-positioning -- Race and Gender Hierarchies -- INTERPLAY OF AGENCY AND STRUCTURE: "WHAT VOTE DO THESE MIXED RACE WOMEN MAKE WITH THEIR BODIES?" -- COMMON EXPERIENCES OF THESE MIXED RACE WOMEN -- EXPOSING RIFTS IN THEORETICAL MODELS OF OPPRESSION -- EXPOSING THE PRIVILEGE AND POLITICS OF CULTURAL WHITENESS -- RECONCILING WHITENESS IN OUR OWN LIVES -- SEGREGATION AND COMMUNITY -- RELATIONSHIP TO SOCIOLOGY AT LARGE AND SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION -- COMMUNICATING ACROSS LINES OF RACIAL DIFFERENCE -- THE POTENTIAL TRANSFORMATIONAL POWER OF A BOTH/AND CONCEPTUALIZATION -- APPENDIX A -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.