Race and Nation

Paul Spickard is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of, among other books, Racial Thinking in the United States and AGlobal History of Christians.

• Introduction: Race and Nation, Identity and Power: Thinking Comparatively about Ethnic SystemsPaul SpickardFounding and Sustaining Myths1. Guilty Pleasures: The Satisfactions of Racial Thinking in Early Nineteenth-Century California Douglas Monroy2. Mestizaje and the Ethnicization of Race in Latin AmericaVirginia Q. Tilley3. Creating a Racial Paradise: Citizenship and Sociology in HawaiiLori Pierce4. White Into Black: Race and National Identity in Contemporary BrazilG. Reginald Daniel5. Memories of Japanese Identity and Racial HierarchyMiyuki YonezawaColonialisms and Their Legacies6. Ethnicity and Power in North Africa (Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco)Taoufik Djebali7. Racial Frontiers in Jamaica's Nonracial NationhoodViolet Showers Johnson8. Between Subjects and Citizens: Algerians, Islam, and French National Identity during the Great WarRichard S. Fogarty9. On Becoming German: Politics of Membership in Germany 310Elisabeth Schäfer-WünscheNation Making10. Reinventing the Nation: Building a Bicultural Future from a Monocultural Past in Aotearoa/New ZealandCluny Macpherson11. Metaphors of Race and Discourse of Nation: Racial Theory and State Nationalism in the First Decades of the Turkish RepublicHoward Eissenstat12. The Fragmented Nation: Genealogy, Identity, and Social Hierarchy in TurkmenistanAdrienne Edgar13. Becoming Cambodian: Ethnicity and the Vietnamese in KampucheaChristine SuBoundaries Within14. A Race Apart? The Paradox of Sikh Ethnicity and NationalismDarshan Tatla15. Race and Ethnicity in South Africa: Ideology and ExperienceT. Dunbar Moodie16. Eritrea's Identity as a Cultural CrossroadsTekle Woldemikael17. The Problem of the Color Blind: Notes on the Discourse on Race in ItalyAlessandro Portelli