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  • Race in Mind

    Critical Essays

    by Paul Spickard ...
    These essays analyze how race affects people's lives and relationships in all settings, from the United States to Great Britain and from Hawaiʻi to Chinese Central Asia. They contemplate the racial positions in various societies of people called Black and people called White, of Asians and Pacific Islanders, and especially of those people whose racial ancestries and identifications are multiple. ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Part Asian, 100% Hapa

    Once a derogatory label derived from the Hawaiian word for half, Hapa is now being embraced as a term of pride by many people of Asian or Pacific Rim mixed-race heritage. Award-winning film producer and artist Kip Fulbeck has created a forum in word and image for Hapas to answer the question they're nearly always asked: "What are you?" Fulbeck's frank, head-on portraits are paired with the sitters ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Is Lighter Better?

    Skin-Tone Discrimination among Asian Americans

    Colorism is defined as "discriminatory treatment of individuals falling within the same 'racial' group on the basis of skin color." In other words, some people, particularly women, are treated better or worse on account of the color of their skin relative to other people who share their same racial category. Colorism affects Asian Americans from many different backgrounds and who live in different ... Read more

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  • Almost All Aliens

    Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity

    Almost All Aliens offers a unique reinterpretation of immigration in the history of the United States. Setting aside the European migrant-centered melting-pot model of immigrant assimilation, Paul Spickard, Francisco Beltrán, and Laura Hooton put forward a fresh and provocative reconceptualization that embraces the multicultural, racialized, and colonially inflected reality of immigration that has ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Beyond Ethnicity

    New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i

    Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai‘i’s myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics. Race is not the primary paradigm through which Hawai‘i is understood. Instead, ethnic difference is celebrated as a sign of multicultural globalism that designates Hawai‘i as the crossroads of the ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Fighting in God's Name

    Religion and Conflict in Local-Global Perspectives

    Series series Conflict and Security in the Developing World
    This collection book provides a critical, inter-disciplinary exploration of the relationship between religion, conflict, violence, and tolerance from local-global perspectives. It focuses mainly on theoretical issues and approaches with contrasting case studies drawn from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South Asia. ... Read more

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  • Raising Multiracial Children

    Tools for Nurturing Identity in a Racialized World

    The essential guide to parenting multiracial and multiethnic children of all ages and learning to support and celebrate their multiracial identitiesIn a world where people are more likely to proclaim color-blindness than talk openly about race, how can we truly value, support, and celebrate our kids' identities? How can we assess our own sense of Racial Dialogue Readiness and develop a deeper ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Multiple Identities

    Migrants, Ethnicity, and Membership

    Edited by Paul Spickard ...
    In recent years, Europeans have engaged in sharp debates about migrants and minority groups as social problems. The discussions usually neglect who these people are, how they live their lives, and how they identify themselves. Multiple Identities describes how migrants and minorities of all age groups experience their lives and manage complex, often multiple, identities, which alter with time and ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Race and Nation

    Ethnic Systems in the Modern World

    Edited by Paul Spickard ...
    Race and Nation is the first book to compare the racial and ethnic systems that have developed around the world. It is the creation of nineteen scholars who are experts on locations as far-flung as China, Jamaica, Eritrea, Brazil, Germany, Punjab, and South Africa. The contributing historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and scholars of literary and cultural studies have ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

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    Raising Multiracial Children

    Tools for Nurturing Identity in a Racialized World

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    6 hours 21 min

    The essential guide to parenting multiracial and multiethnic children of all ages and learning to support and celebrate their multiracial identitiesIn a world where people are more likely to proclaim color-blindness than talk openly about race, how can we truly value, support, and celebrate our kids' identities? How can we assess our own sense of Racial Dialogue Readiness and develop a deeper ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Shape Shifters

    Journeys across Terrains of Race and Identity

    Series series Borderlands and Transcultural Studies
    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 ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Red and Yellow, Black and Brown

    Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies

    Red and Yellow, Black and Brown gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often very different dynamics that exist for mixed race people who are not part white. The chapters focus on the social, psychological, and political situations of mixed race people who have links to two or more peoples of color— Chinese and Mexican, Asian and ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD