Seeing Color

Jun Xing is Professor of Ethnic Studies at Oregon State University. He is the author/editor of five other books, including: Baptized in the Fire of Revolution (1996), Asian America through the Lens (1998), Reversing the Lens (2003), and Teaching for Change (2006). Erlinda Gonzales-Berry is Professor of Chicano/a and Latino/a at Oregon State University where she has served as chair of the Ethnic Studies Department for ten years.Patti Sakurai is Assistant Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department at Oregon State University and specializes in Asian American Studies.Robert D. Thompson Jr. is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at Oregon State University. Trained as a sociologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Professor Thompson specializes in African American and Comparative Ethnic Studies and African American Political and Social Thought in the Early Twentieth Century.Kurt Peters is Associate Professor of Native American Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies, serves on the Executive Board of the Rural Community Sustainability Project, and is Director of the Native American Collaborative Institute at Oregon State University.

Seeing Color is an important book that will prove useful to scholars in anthropology, sociology, history, geography, ethnic studies, and related fields. [This] book will provide scholars, students, and decision makers in the state and beyond with a host of timely and important information on Oregon's rapidly changing and ever more diverse demographic patterns as compared to the stories and patterns that helped shape the state's predominantly white past.

• Part 1 ForewordChapter 2 Introduction: From the Legacy of Ing "Doc" Hay to Reading Ethnicity in Oregon HistoryPart 3 I: DemographicsChapter 4 Racialized Minority Demographics of OregonPart 5 II: A Legacy of RacializationChapter 6 "A Mistake to Simmer the Question Down to Black and White:" The History of Oregon's Miscengenation LawChapter 7 Japanese Americans in Eastern Oregon: The Wartime Roots of an Unexpected CommunityPart 8 III: Indigenous Peoples and Early Communities of ColorChapter 9 Ethnicity, Solidarity, and Tradition: A Study into the Dynamics and Complexities of the Chinese Immigrant Community in John DayChapter 10 A Very Prejudiced State: Discrimination in Oregon from 1900-1940Chapter 11 "We are tired of cookies and old clothes:" From Poverty Programs to Community Empowerment among Oregon's mexicano Poluation, 1957-1975Chapter 12 Lumber, Railroads, Factories, and Silicon: Asian and Pacific Islander Americans and Work in OregonPart 12 IV: Race and LaborChapter 13 Mixtec Farmworkers in Oregon: Linking Labor and Ethnicity through Farmworker Unions, Hometown Associations and Pan-Indigenous OrganizingPart 15 V: History and MemoryChapter 16 Oral Narratives of the Klamath Termination: Using Video to Record MemoryChapter 17 Celilo Falls: Parallel Lives Along N'Che WanaChapter 18 Defying Definition: Portraits of Arab OregoniansPart 19 VI: Politics and Social ControlChapter 20 "Political History, Political Science, and Oregon Politics: Race and Ethnicity"Chapter 21 "Made on the Inside," Destruction on the Outside: Race, Oregon and the Prison Industrial ComplexPart 22 Appendix