Red and Yellow, Black and Brown: Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies

Red and Yellow, Black and Brown: Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies

Joanne L. Rondilla (Editor), Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. (Editor), Professor Paul Spickard (Editor)
$40.95
Publication Date: July 3rd, 2017
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
ISBN:
9780813587301
Pages:
278

Description

Red and Yellow, Black and Brown gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often very different dynamics that exist for mixed race people who are not part white. The chapters focus on the social, psychological, and political situations of mixed race people who have links to two or more peoples of color— Chinese and Mexican, Asian and Black, Native American and African American, South Asian and Filipino, Black and Latino/a and so on. Red and Yellow, Black and Brown addresses questions surrounding the meanings and communication of racial identities in dual or multiple minority situations and the editors highlight the theoretical implications of this fresh approach to racial studies.  
 

About the Author

JOANNE L. RONDILLA is a program lecturer in Asian Pacific American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University in Tempe. She is the coauthor of several books, including Is Lighter Better? Skin Tone Discrimination among Asian Americans.
 
RUDY P. GUEVARRA JR. is an associate professor of Asian Pacific American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. He is the author and coeditor of several books, including Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego (Rutgers University Press).
 
PAUL SPICKARD is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author or editor of several books, including Race in Mind: Critical Essays.
 

Praise for Red and Yellow, Black and Brown: Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies

"This is a first-rate book on an important, topical, and under-theorized area of scholarship. A focus on mixed race people of color, as opposed to mixed race white/people of color, is truly cutting edge."
— Kevin Johnson

"In decentering whiteness and highlighting the experiences of multiracial people of multiple minority backgrounds, this anthology signals the exciting start of a new third wave in mixed race studies."
— Robert Chao Romero