Racially Mixed People in America

PART ONE: RACIAL ECOLOGY Within, Between, and Beyond Race - Maria P P Root The Illogic of American Racial Categories - Paul R Spickard The Human Ecology of Multiracial Identity - Robin L Miller Developmental Pathways - Deborah J Johnson Toward an Ecological Theoretical Formulation of Race Identity in Black/White Biracial Children Mixed Heritage Individuals - Cookie White Stephan Ethnic Identity and Trait Characteristics The Quiet Immigration - Michael C Thornton Foreign Spouses of US Citizens, 1945-1985 Beauty and the Beast - Carla K Bradshaw On Racial Ambiguity PART TWO: RECOVERING THE MULTIRACIAL PAST Passers and Pluralists - G Reginald Daniel Subverting the Racial Divide Blood Quantum - Terry P Wilson Native American Mixed Bloods La Raza and the Melting Pot - Carlos A Fernandez A Comparative Look at Multiethnicity From Dust to Gold - Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde The Vietnamese Amerasian Experience An Invisible Monster - Cynthia L Nakashima The Creation and Denial of Mixed Race People in America PART THREE: WHAT OF THE CHILDREN Back to the Drawing Board - Maria P P Root Methodological Issues in Research on Multiracial People Identity Development in Biracial Children - James H Jacobs Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Ana Mari Cauce et al Social Adjustment of Biracial Youth Negotiating Ethnic Identity - Jewelle Taylor Gibbs and Alice M Hines Issues for Black/White Biracial Adolescents Offspring of Cross-Race and Cross-Ethnic Marriages in Hawaii - Ronald C Johnson Please Choose One - Christine C Iijima Hall Ethnic Identity Choices for Biracial Individuals Interracial Japanese Americans - Amy Iwasaki Mass The Best of Both Worlds or the End of the Japanese American Community? Prism Lives - Teresa Kay Williams Identity of Binational Amerasians The Developmental Process of Asserting a Biracial, Bicultural Identity - George Kitahara Kich PART FOUR: CHALLENGING THE CENSUS Is Multiracial Status Unique? The Personal and Social Experience - Michael C Thornton Coloring Outside the Lines - Christine C Iijima Hall Multicultural Identity and the Death of Stereotypes - Philip Tajitsu Nash Beyond Black and White - G Reginald Daniel The New Multiracial Consciousness From Shortcuts to Solutions - Maria P P Root