Paul Spickard ; with Jeffrey Moniz and Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly.
Notre Dame, Ind. :
University of Notre Dame Press,
[2015]
1 online resource (xiv, 394 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-387) and index.
The illogic of American racial catagories -- Mapping race: multiracial people and racial category construction in the United States and Britain -- What's critical about white studies -- Race and nation, identity and power: thinking comparatively about ethnic systems -- From the black Atlantic to the racial Pacific: rethinking racial hierarchy in colonial and postcolonial contexts -- The return of scientific racism? DNA ancestry testing, race, and the New Eugenics movement -- What must I be? Asian Americans and the question of multiethnic identity -- The power of blackness: mixed-race leaders and the monoracial ideal -- Pacific Islander Americans and multiethnicity: a vision of America's future? -- Carving out a middle ground: making race in Hawai'i with Jeffrey Moniz -- Does multiraciality lighten? Me-too ethnicity and the whiteness trap -- It's not that simple: multiraciality, models, and social hierarchy with Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly -- Obama nation? Race, multiraciality, and American identity.