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Tables of Contents for Racially Mixed People in America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Dedication
viii
Part I: Racial Ecology
Within, Between, and Beyond Race
3
9
Maria P. P. Root
The Illogic of American Racial Categories
12
12
Paul R. Spickard
The Human Ecology of Multiracial Identity
24
13
Robin L. Miller
Developmental Pathways: Toward an Ecological Theoretical Formulation of Race Identity in Black-White Biracial Children
37
13
Deborah J. Johnson
Mixed-Heritage Individuals: Ethnic Identity and Trait Characteristics
50
14
Cookie White Stephan
The Quiet Immigration: Foreign Spouses of U.S. Citizens, 1945-1985
64
13
Michael C. Thornton
Beauty and the Beast: On Racial Ambiguity
77
14
Carla K. Bradshaw
Part II: Recovering the Multiracial Past
Passers and Pluralists: Subverting the Racial Divide
91
17
G. Reginald Daniel
Blood Quantum: Native American Mixed Bloods
108
18
Terry P. Wilson
La Raza and the Melting Pot: A Comparative Look at Multiethnicity
126
18
Carlos A. Fernandez
From Dust to Gold: The Vietnamese Amerasian Experience
144
18
Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde
An Invisible Monster: The Creation and Denial of Mixed-Race People in America
162
19
Cynthia L. Nakashima
Part III: What of the Children?
Back to the Drawing Board: Methodological Issues in Research on Multiracial People
181
9
Maria P. P. Root
Identity Development in Biracial Children
190
17
James H. Jacobs
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Social Adjustment of Biracial Youth
207
16
Ana Mari Cauce
Yumi Hiraga
Craig Mason
Tanya Aguilar
Nydia Ordonez
Nancy Gonzales
Negotiating Ethnic Identity: Issues for Black-White Biracial Adolescents
223
16
Jewelle TayIor Gibbs
Alice M. Hines
Offspring of Cross-Race and Cross-Ethnic Marriages in Hawaii
239
11
Ronald C. Johnson
Please Choose One: Ethnic Identity Choices for Biracial Individuals
250
15
Christine C. Iijima Hall
Interracial Japanese Americans: The Best of Both Worlds or the End of the Japanese American Community?
265
15
Amy Iwasaki Mass
Prism Lives: Identity of Binational Amerasians
280
24
Teresa Kay Williams
The Developmental Process of Asserting a Biracial, Bicultural Identity
304
17
George Kitahara Kich
Part IV: Challenging the Census
Is Multiracial Status Unique? The Personal and Social Experience
321
5
Michael C. Thornton
Coloring Outside the Lines
326
4
Christine C. Iijima Hail
Multicultural Identity and the Death of Stereotypes
330
3
Philip Tajitsu Nash
Beyond Black and White: The New Multiracial Consciousness
333
9
G. Reginald Daniel
From Shortcuts to Solutions
342
6
Maria P. P. Root
References
348
22
Index
370
7
About the Authors
377