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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820508503321

Autore

Spickard Paul R. <1950->

Titolo

Race in mind : critical essays / / Paul Spickard ; with Jeffrey Moniz and Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Indiana : , : University of Notre Dame Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-268-18201-9

0-268-18200-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Race

Ethnicity

Race relations

Multiculturalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; RACE IN MIND; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 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; 11 Does Multiraciality Lighten? Me-Too Ethnicity and the Whiteness Trap                                                                              ; 12 It's Not That Simple: Multiraciality, Models, and Social Hierarchy; 13 Obama Nation? Race, Multiraciality, and American Identity

Suggested Reading                        Index