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  • Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking by Michael Keevak (review) [Spickard]

    Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking by Michael Keevak (review) China Review International Volume 19, Number 1, 2012 pages 103-105 DOI: 10.1353/cri.2012.0023 Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Michael Keevak, Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011). 248 pages. Becoming Yellow is a…

  • Where “Old” and “New” World Color Meet in Multiracial Asian America

    Where “Old” and “New” World Color Meet in Multiracial Asian America Racism Review 2013-11-18 Sharon Chang, Guest blogger Multiracial Asian Families Rare indeed is the Asian American who has not heard an aunt or grandmother say something like; ‘Don’t go out in the sun. You’ll get too dark’…[Asian countries have] had long-standing preferences for light…

  • Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “The Return of Pseudoscientific Racism? DNA Ancestry Testing, Race, and the New Eugenics Movement”

    Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “The Return of Pseudoscientific Racism? DNA Ancestry Testing, Race, and the New Eugenics Movement” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-10-17, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa…

  • Pacific Islander Americans and Multiethnicity: A Vision of America’s Future?

    Pacific Islander Americans and Multiethnicity: A Vision of America’s Future? Social Forces Volume 73, Issue 4 (1995) pages 1365-1383 DOI: 10.1093/sf/73.4.1365 Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Rowena Fong, Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor in Services to Children and Families University of Texas, Austin Americans are rapidly becoming an ethnically…

  • The JCMRS inaugural issue will be released Summer, 2013

    The JCMRS inaugural issue will be released on Summer, 2013 Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies c/o Department of Sociology SSMS Room 3005 University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California  93106-9430 E-Mail: socjcmrs@soc.ucsb.edu 2012-10-10 The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies (JCMRS) is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to developing the field of Critical Mixed…

  • The Evolution of Mixed-Race Historiography and Theory: Inaugural Sawyer Seminar

    The Evolution of Mixed-Race Historiography and Theory: Inaugural Sawyer Seminar University of Southern California, Univeristy Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) East Asian Seminar Room (110C) Friday, 2013-01-18, 14:00-17:00 PST (Local Time) Presented by the Center for Japanese Religions and Culture’s “Critical Mixed-Race Studies: A Transpacific Approach” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminars…

  • Race, Theory, and Scholarship in the Biracial Project

    Race, Theory, and Scholarship in the Biracial Project Chapter in: Race Struggles University of Illinois Press 2009 352 pages 6.125 x 9.25 in.; 4 tables Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07648-0 Edited by: Theodore Koditschek, Professor of History University of Missouri, Columbia Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor of African American Studies University of Illinois,…

  • ‘Mixture is a Neoliberal Good’: Mixed-Race Metaphors and Post-Racial Masks

    The first section introduces three popular metaphors about mixed-race objects and ‘racial bridges’ that Fanon used to invoke the threat of bestial, immature and consumerist Others – metaphors that were not swept away by the winds of change in the 1960s, or the decline and fall of Black internationalist movements in the 1970s.

  • Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Review: Spickard]

    Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Review: Spickard] American Studies Volume 50, No. 1/2: Spring/Summer 2009 pages 125-127 Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. Jared Sexton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2008. One of the major developments in ethnic studies over…

  • Hapa Japan Conference

    Hapa Japan Conference Center for Japanese Studies Institute of East Asian Studies University of California, Berkeley 2011-04-08 through 2011-04-09 Introduction Agenda Registration Tickets: New Vision Award Recipient Jero, A Conversation & Mini-Concert Introduction Hapa is a Hawaiian term that is now widely used to describe someone of mixed racial or ethnic heritage. A New York…