University Press of America
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978-0-7618-5064-9 • Paperback • February 2010 • $94.99 • (£73.00)
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Julius O. Adekunle is a professor of African history at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. He is the author of Culture and Customs of Rwanda (2007) and the editor of Religion in Politics: Secularism and National Integration in Modern Nigeria (2009).
Hettie V. Williams teaches United States history, world history, western civilization, and upper division courses on the history of African Americans at Monmouth University. She is the author of We Shall Overcome to We Shall Overrun: The Collapse of the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Revolt (1962-1968) (University Press of America, 2008).
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 Part 1: The First Complex Societies to Modern Times
Part 5 1. Race, Science, and Human Origins in Africa
Part 6 2. Race and the Rise of the Swahili Culture
Part 7 3. 'Caste'-[ing] Gender: Caste and Patriarchy in Ancient Hindu Jurisprudence
Part 8 4. Comparative Race and Slavery in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity: Texts, Practices, and Current Implications
Part 9 5. The Dark Craven Jew: Race and Religion in Medieval Europe
Part 10 6. Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Racial Slavery in the New World
Part 11 7. The Yellow Lady: Mulatto Women in the Suriname Plantocracy
Chapter 12 Part 2: Race and Mixed Race in the Americas
Part 13 8. Critical Mixed Race Studies: New Approaches to Resistance and Social Justice
Part 14 9. Militant Multiraciality: Rejecting Race and Rejecting the Conveniences of Complicity
Part 15 10. Whiteness Reconstructed: Multiracial Identity as a Category of "New White"
Part 16 11. Conversations in Black and White: The Limitations of Binary Thinking About Race in America
Part 17 12. The Necessity of a Multiracial Category in a Race-Conscious Society
Part 18 13. Mixed Race Terminologies in the Americas: Globalizing the Creole in the Twenty First Century
Part 19 14. Examining the Regional and Multigenerational Context of Creole and American Indian Identity
Part 20 15. Race, Class, and Power: The Politics of Multiraciality in Brazil
Part 21 16. All Mixed Up: A New Racial Commonsense in Global Perspective
Chapter 22 Part 3: Race, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Contemporary Societies
Part 23 17. Black No More: African Americans and the 'New' Race Science
Part 24 18. Contesting Identities of Color: African Female Immigrants in the Americas
Part 25 19. Burdened Intersections: Black Women and Race, Gender, and Class
Part 26 20. Ethnic Conflicts in the Middle East: A Comparative Analysis of Communal Violence within the Matrix of the Colonial Legacy, Globalization, and Global Stability
Part 27 21. Ethnic Identity in China: The Politics of Cultural Difference
Part 28 22. Shangri-la has Forsaken Us: China's Ethnic Minorities, Identity, and Government Repression
Part 29 23. The Russian/Chechen Conflict and It's Consequences
Chapter 30 Contributors
Chapter 31 Index
Color Struck: Essays of Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective is an essential and welcome contribution to the fields of global studies, cultural studies, and the social sciences. It is very relevant to ongoing debates, dialogues, and discourses about identity and the centrality of race in all these discussions. While some of the essays deploy theoretical (and technical) terminologies, the whole work is quite comprehensible - especially for the uninitiated reader curious about the power of race in our modern consciousness.
— 'BioDun J. Ogundayo