Böcker av Paul Spickard

Shape Shifters presents a wide-ranging array of essays that examine peoples of mixed racial identity across a broad swath of space and time to understand the fluid nature of racial identities.

Colorism is defined as discriminatory treatment of individuals falling within the same 'racial' group on the basis of skin color. That is, some people, particularly women, are treated better or worse on account of the color of their skin relative to other.

Offers a reinterpretation of immigration in the history of the United States. This book puts forward a reconceptualization of immigration in the United States. It illustrates the relationship between ethnic identity and race, slavery, and colonial expansion. It provides an analysis of immigration and identity in the United States.

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

As the 20th century closes, ethnicity stands out as a powerful force for binding people together in a sense of shared origins and worldview. Regarding identity as a dynamic, on-going, formative and transformative process, this title illustrates how ethnic identity works in the real world.