We are a people : narrative and multiplicity in constructing ethnic identity

Spickard, Paul R., 1950- (Added Author). Burroughs, W. Jeffrey. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1566397227
ISBN: 9781566397223
ISBN: 1566397235
ISBN: 9781566397230
Physical Description: print
viii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©2000.

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Formatted Contents Note:

We are a people / Paul Spickard and W. Jeffrey Burroughs -- Multiple ethnicities and identity in the United States / Mary C. Waters -- That's the story of our life / Stephen Cornell -- Black immigrants in the United States / Violet M. Johnson -- The children of Samoan migrants in New Zealand / Cluny Macpherson and Laʻavasa Macpherson -- Narrating to the center of power in the Marshall Islands / Phillip H. McArthur -- Discovered identities and American Indian supratribalism / Stephen Cornell -- The anatomy of scientific racism: racialist responses to Black athletic achievement / Patrick B. Miller -- I'm not a Chileno! Rapa Nui identity / Max E. Stanton -- Multiracial identity in Brazil and the United States / G. Reginald Daniel -- Mixed laughter / Darby Li Po Price -- Punjabi Mexican American experiences of multiethnicity / Karen Leonard -- Rethinking racial identity development / Maria P.P. Root -- The continuing significance of race / Lori Pierce -- What are the functions of ethnic identity? / Cookie White Stephan and Walter G. Stephan -- Ethnicity, multiplicity, and narrative: problems and possibilities / W. Jeffrey Burroughs and Paul Spickard.