Race in Mind

Critical Essays
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-268-04148-9
Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 591 g

Race in Mind presents fourteen critical essays on race and mixed race by one of America’s most prolific and influential ethnic studies scholars. Collected in one volume are many of Paul Spickard’s theoretical writings over the past two decades. Ten of the articles have been revised and updated from previous publications. Four appear here for the first time. Spickard’s work embraces three overarching themes: race as biology versus race as something constructed by social and political relationships; race as a phenomenon that exists not just in the United States, but in every part of the world, and even in the relationships between nations; and the question of racial multiplicity.

These essays analyze how race affects people’s lives and relationships in all settings, from the United States to Great Britain and from Hawaii 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.

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Paul Spickard is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author and editior of 19 books, including, among others: Global Mixed Race edited with Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain, Stephen Small, Minelle Mahtani, and Miri Song (New York University Press, 2014); Multiple Identities: Migrants, Ethnicity, and Membership edited (Indiana University Press, 2013); Race and Immigration in the United States: New Histories, edited (New York: Routledge, 2011); Japanese Americans: The Formation and Transformation of an Ethnic Group, revised edition (Rutgers University Oress, 2009); and Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity (Routledge, 2007).