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These essays analyze how race affects people's lives and relationships in all settings, from the United States to Great Britain and from Hawaiʻi to Chinese Central Asia. They contemplate the racial positions in various societies of people called Black and people called White, of Asians and Pacific Islanders, and especially of those people whose racial ancestries and identifications are multiple. Here for the first time are Spickard's trenchant analyses of the creation of race in the South Pacific, of DNA testing for racial ancestry, and of the meaning of multiplicity in the age of Barack Obama.
“Erudite, insightful, challenging, informed and informative, thoughtful and thought-provoking, Race in Mind: Critical Essays is an impressive body of impressively presented and reasoned scholarship on the subject of race that is very highly recommended for personal reading lists, as well as both community and academic library collections.” —Midwest Book Review
Paul Spickard is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author or editor/co-editor of a number of books, including Global Mixed Race.
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
RACE AND ETHNICITY
1. The Illogic of American Racial Categories
2. Mapping Race: Multiracial People and Racial Category Construction in the United States and Britain
3. What’s Critical about White Studies
4. Race and Nation, Identity and Power: Thinking Comparatively about Ethnic Systems
5. From the Black Atlantic to the Racial Pacific: Rethinking Racial Hierarchy in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts
6. The Return of Scientific Racism? DNA Ancestry Testing, Race, and the New Eugenics Movement
MIXED RACE
7. What Must I Be? Asian Americans and the Question of Multiethnic Identity
8. The Power of Blackness: Mixed-Race Leaders and the Monoracial Ideal
9. Pacific Islander Americans and Multiethnicity: A Vision of America’s Future?
10. Carving Out a Middle Ground: Making Race in Hawai‘i with Jeffrey Moniz
11. Does Multiraciality Lighten? Me-Too Ethnicity and the Whiteness Trap
12. It’s Not That Simple: Multiraciality, Models, and Social Hierarchy with Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly
13. Obama Nation? Race, Multiraciality, and American Identity
Suggested Reading
Index