Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: About Mixed Race, Not about Whiteness

Paul Spickard, Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., and Joanne L. Rondilla

Identity Journeys

Chapter 2. Rising Sun, Rising Soul: On Mixed Race Asian Identity That Includes Blackness

Velina Hasu Houston

Chapter 3. Blackapina

Janet C. Mendoza Stickmon

Multiple Minority Marriage and Parenting

Chapter 4. Intermarriage and the Making of a Multicultural Society in the Baja California Borderlands

Verónica Castillo-Muñoz

Chapter 5. Cross-Racial Minority Intermarriage: Mutual Marginalization and Critique

Jessica Vasquez-Tokos

Chapter 6. Parental Racial Socialization: A Glimpse into the Racial Socialization Process as It Occurs in a Dual-Minority Multiracial Family

Cristina M. Ortiz

Mixed Identity and Monoracial Belonging

Chapter 7. Being Mixed Race in the Makah Nation: Redeeming the Existence of African Native Americans

Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly

Chapter 8. “You’re Not Black or Mexican Enough!”: Policing Racial/Ethnic Authenticity among Blaxicans in the United States

Rebecca Romo

Asian Connections

Chapter 9. Bumbay in the Bay: The Struggle for Indipino Identity in San Francisco

Maharaj Raju Desai

Chapter 10. Hypervisibility and Invisibility of Female Haafu Models in Japan’s Beauty Culture

Kaori Mori Want

Chapter 11. Checking “Other” Twice: Transnational Dual Minorities

Lily Anne Y. Welty Tamai

Chapter 12. Neanderthal-Human Hybridity and the Frontier of Critical Mixed Race Studies

Terence Keel

Chapter 13. Epilogue: Expanding the Terrain of Mixed Race Studies: What We Learn from the Study of Non-White Multiracials

Nitasha Tamar Sharma

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors