Racial Thinking in the United States

Charles King

Description

Racial Thinking in the United States is a comprehensive reassessment of the ideas that Americans have had about race. This useful book draws on the skills and perspectives of nine scholars from the fields of history, sociology, theology, American studies, and ethnic studies. In thirteen carefully crafted essays they tell the history of the American system of racial domination and of twentieth-century challenges to that racial hierarchy, from monoracial movements to the multiracial movement.

Racial Thinking in the United States provides excellent summaries of historical events and cultural movements, as well as analysis and criticism. It will be a welcome text for undergraduate courses in ethnic studies and American history.

Sujets

• Ethnic Studies
• 20th Century
• HISTORY
• Histoire
• Sociology
• American studies
• African American studies
• General officer
• General
• United States
• Discrimination
• Race

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 07 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780268161583
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

r acial thinking in the United States

African American Intellectual Heritage Series

PA U L S P I C KA R D

General Editor

r acial thinking in the United States

u n c o m p l e t e d i n d e p e n d e n c e

edited by & Paul Spickard G. Reginald Daniel

University of Notre Dame Press • Notre Dame, Indiana

University ofNotre DamePress Notre Dame, Indiana46556 www.undpress.nd.edu All Rights Reserved Copyright ©2004by University ofNotre Dame Reprinted in2011, 2012

Published in the United States ofAmerica

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Racial thinking in the United States : uncompleted independence / edited by Paul Spickard and G. Reginald Daniel. p. cm. — (African American intellectual heritage series) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn0-268-04103-2(cloth : alk. paper) isbn 13:978-0-268-04104-5(pbk. : alk. paper) isbn 10:0-268-04104-0(pbk. : alk. paper) 1. United States—Race relations.2. United States—Race relations— Public opinion.3. Race awareness—United States.4. Racism— United States.5. Ethnicity—United States.6. Racially mixed people—Race identity—United States.7. Social movements—United States.8. United States—Intellectual life.9. Public opinion—United States. I. Spickard, Paul R.,1950– II. Daniel, G. Reginald,1949– III.Series. e184.a1r3235 2004 305.8'00973—dc22 2004011377

To Patrick Miller, estimable scholar, patient friend

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Acknowledgments

contents

Independence Possible Paul Spickard & G. Reginald Daniel

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pa rt 1 C r e a t i n g R a c i a l H i e r a r c h y i n S l a v e ry a n d C o l o n i a l i s m

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Either Black or White: Race, Modernity, and the Law of the Excluded Middle G. Reginald Daniel

Mustefinos Are White by Law: Whites and People of Mixed Racial Origins in Historical and Comparative Perspective Stephen A. Small

pa rt 2 A nom a l i e s i n t h e R a c i a l B i n a ry

Not Color but Character: Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s Uncompleted Argument Hanna Wallinger

The Power of Blackness: Mixed-Race Leaders and the Monoracial Ideal Paul Spickard

“The Whites Have Created Modern Honolulu”: Ethnicity, Racial Stratification, and the Discourse of A loha Lori Pierce

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pa rt 3 M o n o r a c i a l C h a l l e n g e s t o R a c i a l H i e r a r c h y

Looking Backward, MovingAdelante:A Critical Analysis of the African American and Chicana/o Civil Rights Movements Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval

The Asian American Movement: A Quest for Racial Equality, Social Justice, and Political Empowerment William Wei

Black Essentialism and the Afrocentric Idea: The Demise of Eurocentrism or Eurocentrism in a New Guise? G. Reginald Daniel

What’s Critical about White Studies Paul Spickard

pa rt 4 Mu lt i r a c i a l C h a l l e n g e s t o t h e R a c i a l B i n a ry

Black No More or More Than Black? Multiracial Identity Politics and the Multiracial Movement G. Reginald Daniel

Race and Multiraciality: Multiracial Challenges to Monoracialism Michael C. Thornton

The Language ofMestizajein a Renewed Rhetoric of Black Theology Zipporah G. Glass

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acknowledgments

The editors owe debts to several people and institutions connected with the making of this book. The Collegium for African American Research (CA AR), an esteemed body of European scholars of Afri- can America, provided the occasion for most of the volume’s con- tributors to gather in March1999in Münster, Germany, and share their ideas. Special thanks are due to the leaders of CA AR, especi- ally Maria Diedrich and Carl Pedersen. The University of Califor- nia, Santa Barbara, provided travel funds, a wonderful library, and a stimulating intellectual environment for the editors. Barbara Han- rahan at the University of Notre Dame Press was steadfast in her en- couragement and insightful in her commentary. Sheila Berg was an exemplary copyeditor. Patrick Miller, of CA AR and Northeastern Illinois University, helped us to conceive the idea for this book, brought to our attention scholars who could contribute, read drafts of chapters, and goaded us genially to complete the work. Thanks to them all.

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