Shape Shifters (eBook, ePUB)

Journeys across Terrains of Race and Identity
Redaktion: Tamai, Lily Anne Y. Welty

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Produktbeschreibung

Shape Shifters presents a wide-ranging array of essays that examine peoples of mixed racial identity. Moving beyond the static "either/or" categories of racial identification found within typical insular conversations about mixed-race peoples, Shape Shifters explores these mixed-race identities as fluid, ambiguous, contingent, multiple, and malleable. This volume expands our understandings of how individuals and ethnic groups identify themselves within their own sociohistorical contexts. The essays in Shape Shifters explore different historical eras and reach across the globe, from the Roman and Chinese borderlands of classical antiquity to medieval Eurasian shape shifters, the Native peoples of the missions of Spanish California, and racial shape shifting among African Americans in the post-civil rights era. At different times in their lives or over generations in their families, racial shape shifters have moved from one social context to another. And as new social contexts were imposed on them, identities have even changed from one group to another. This is not racial, ethnic, or religious imposture. It is simply the way that people's lives unfold in fluid sociohistorical circumstances. With contributions by Ryan Abrecht, George J. Sánchez, Laura Moore, and Margaret Hunter, among others, Shape Shifters explores the forces of migration, borderlands, trade, warfare, occupation, colonial imposition, and the creation and dissolution of states and empires to highlight the historically contingent basis of identification among mixed-race peoples across time and space.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496216984
• Artikelnr.: 59617857

Autorenporträt

Lily Anne Y. Welty Tamai is an assistant professor of Asian American studies at California State University Channel Islands. Ingrid Dineen¿Wimberly is a professor of history at University of LaVerne–Point Mugu, and the author of The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862–1916 (Nebraska, 2019). Paul Spickard is a professor of history, Black studies, and Asian American studies at the University of California–Santa Barbara. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity and Race in Mind: Critical Essays.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Shape Shifting: Reflections on Racial Plasticity
Paul Spickard
Part 1. Different Context, Different Identity
2. Places of Possibility: Shape Shifting in the Roman and Chinese
Borderlands
Ryan R. Abrecht
3. Rabban ¿auma: A Medieval Eurasian Shape Shifter
Colleen C. Ho
4. From Fan Gui to Friend: American Chinese, Social Identity, and the Quest
for Subjectivity
David Torres-Rouff
5. Becoming Mixed Race: Northern California and the Production of
Multiracial Identities
Alyssa M. Newman
6. “You Are the Shame of the Race”: Dynamics of Pain, Shame, and Violence
in Shape Shifting Processes
Angelica Pesarini
Part 2. Choosing Identity
7. William A. Leidesdorff: The Rise of a Shape Shifter and the Posthumous
Fall from Grace of a Racial Imposter
Laura Moore
8. Indian, Civilizer, Slaveholder, and Politician: The Many Shapes of Peter
Pitchlynn
Paul Barba
9. Half-Butterfly, Half-Caste: Sadakichi Hartmann and the Mixed-Japanese
Drama “Osadda’s Revenge”
Rena M. Heinrich
10. Shape Shifting in the Transpacific Borderlands: Expressions of Japanese
Chicano Culture and Identity
Maria Jose Plascencia and George J. Sánchez
11. Betwixt and Between: A Personal Odyssey through the Twilight Zone
G. Reginald Daniel
12. Shape Shifting into Blackness in the Post–Civil Rights Era
Margaret Hunter
Part 3. Compelled Identity
13. Mudrooroo: Aboriginal No More?
Paul Spickard
Contributors
Index