Race in mind: critical essays

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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. 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.