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Shape Shifters presents a wide-ranging array of essays that examine
peoples of mixed racial identity, from the Roman and Chinese
borderlands of classical antiquity to medieval Eurasian shape
shifters, Native peoples of the missions of Spanish California, and
African Americans in the post–civil rights era. At different
times in their lives or over generations in their families, racial
shape shifters have moved from one social context to another. And
as new social contexts were imposed on them, identities have even
changed from one group to another. Moving beyond the static
either/or categories of racial identification found within typical
insular conversations about mixed-race peoples, Shape Shifters
explores these mixed-race identities as fluid, ambiguous,
contingent, multiple, and malleable. With contributions by Ryan
Abrecht, George J. Sánchez, Laura Moore, and Margaret Hunter,
among others, Shape Shifters explores the forces of migration,
borderlands, trade, warfare, occupation, colonial imposition, and
the creation and dissolution of states and empires to highlight the
historically contingent basis of identification among mixed-race
peoples across time and space. Â
Shape Shifters presents a wide-ranging array of essays that examine
peoples of mixed racial identity. Moving beyond the static
""either/or"" categories of racial identification found within
typical insular conversations about mixed-race peoples, Shape
Shifters explores these mixed-race identities as fluid, ambiguous,
contingent, multiple, and malleable. This volume expands our
understandings of how individuals and ethnic groups identify
themselves within their own sociohistorical contexts. The essays in
Shape Shifters explore different historical eras and reach across
of the globe, from the Roman and Chinese borderlands of classical
antiquity to Medieval Eurasian shape-shifters, the Native peoples
of the missions of Spanish California, and racial shape-shifting
among African Americans in the post-civil rights era. At different
times in their lives or over generations in their families, racial
shape-shifters have moved from one social context to another. And
as new social contexts were imposed on them, identities have even
changed from one group to another. This is not racial, ethnic, or
religious imposture. It is simply the way that people's lives
unfold in fluid sociohistorical circumstances. With contributions
by Ryan Abrecht, George J. Sanchez, Laura Moore, and Margaret
Hunter, among others, Shape Shifters explores the forces of
migration, borderlands, trade, warfare, occupation, colonial
imposition, and the creation and dissolution of states and empires
to highlight the historically contingent basis of identification
among mixed-race peoples across time and space.
In The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862-1916,
Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly examines generations of mixed-race African
Americans after the Civil War and into the Progressive Era,
skillfully tracking the rise of a leadership class in Black America
made up largely of individuals who had complex racial ancestries,
many of whom therefore enjoyed racial options to identity as either
Black or White. Although these people might have chosen to pass as
White to avoid the racial violence and exclusion associated with
the dominant racial ideology of the time, they instead chose to
identify as Black Americans, a decision that provided upward
mobility in social, political, and economic terms. Dineen-Wimberly
highlights African American economic and political leaders and
educators such as P. B. S. Pinchback, Theophile T. Allain, Booker
T. Washington, and Frederick Douglass as well as women such as
Josephine B. Willson Bruce and E. Azalia Hackley who were prominent
clubwomen, lecturers, educators, and settlement house founders. In
their quest for leadership within the African American community,
these leaders drew on the concept of Blackness as a source of
opportunities and power to transform their communities in the long
struggle for Black equality. The Allure of Blackness among
Mixed-Race Americans, 1862-1916 confounds much of the conventional
wisdom about racially complicated people and details the manner in
which they chose their racial identity and ultimately overturns the
"passing" trope that has dominated so much Americanist scholarship
and social thought about the relationship between race and social
and political transformation in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries.
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