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 with Jeffrey Moniz

11  Does Multiraciality Lighten? Me-Too Ethnicity and the Whiteness Trap

12  It’s Not That Simple: Multiraciality, Models, and Social Hierarchy with Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly

13  Obama Nation? Race, Multiraciality, and American Identity

Suggested Reading

Index