Paul Spickard is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author or editor/co-editor of a number of books, including Global Mixed Race.
"This is a collection of masterful writings by one of the nation’s
most cogent and sensitive race scholars. National and global as
well as comparative historical in scope, these essays display
Spickard’s signature sharp wit combined with an incisive intellect
in deliberations on wide-ranging topics in history and ethnic
studies, particularly in terms of race and multiplicity. It is
wonderful that we now have an opportunity to experience the full
import of some of Spickard’s most representative analyses compiled
into one volume." —G. Reginald Daniel, author of Race and
Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging
Paths?
"Paul Spickard is one of the most innovative, controversial, and
powerful voices in the scholarship on race and racial multiplicity,
both in the United States and on a global scale. This volume traces
his unique scholarly contributions to the field from the 1980s to
the present. Like no other scholar in American history, he writes
American history as world history: the essays in this volume
negotiate transnational perspectives, on the one hand, and, on the
other, they combine the world history paradigm with thorough
investigations into the specificity of time, particular people,
locales, cultures, and social systems." —Maria I. Diedrich,
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
"A pioneer in mixed race studies, Paul Spickard is one of the most
innovative historians to study race and ethnicity in the past
generation. Race in Mind captures the essence of his originality
and its relevance for understanding today’s increasingly
multiracial America. This book is essential reading for the
twenty-first century." —Lon Kurashige, University of Southern
California
"Challenging what [Spickard] sees as the simple white/black binary
of many ethnic and racial studies, the 14 essays here examine
multiraciality. . . . Spickard reaches beyond African-Americans to
consider the Asian and Latino/a communities in the United States
and explore[s] how race is 'constructed in different ways in
different times and places,' among them England, Japan, Central
America, South Africa, China, Pacific Islands, and Hawaii. . . . In
his assessments of scholarship in the field of race and ethnic
studies, Spickard writes with directness and verve, engaging and
instructing the lay reader while flinging a gauntlet—'Race in
America is not, and has never been, just about White and
Black'—toward conventional academic theorists." —Publishers
Weekly
“Over the years, Spickard found the ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois to be
hugely influential including the conclusion that ‘racialized
relationships exist in every part of the globe.’ Many of the later
essays in this collection deal with multiplicity—‘people who are
manifestly multiple in their racial ancestry’—and delve into the
racial history, affiliations, and loyalties of Asian Americans,
Hawaiians, and Pacific-Islander Americans.” —Foreword Reviews
“Erudite, insightful, challenging, informed and informative,
thoughtful and thought-provoking, Race in Mind: Critical Essays is
an impressive body of impressively presented and reasoned
scholarship on the subject of race that is very highly recommended
for personal reading lists, as well as both community and academic
library collections.” —Midwest Book Review
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