Color Struck

Julius O. Adekunle is a professor of African history at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. He is the author of Culture and Customs of Rwanda (2007) and the editor of Religion in Politics: Secularism and National Integration in Modern Nigeria (2009).Hettie V. Williams teaches United States history, world history, western civilization, and upper division courses on the history of African Americans at Monmouth University. She is the author of We Shall Overcome to We Shall Overrun: The Collapse of the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Revolt (1962-1968) (University Press of America, 2008).

Color Struck: Essays of Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective is an essential and welcome contribution to the fields of global studies, cultural studies, and the social sciences. It is very relevant to ongoing debates, dialogues, and discourses about identity and the centrality of race in all these discussions. While some of the essays deploy theoretical (and technical) terminologies, the whole work is quite comprehensible - especially for the uninitiated reader curious about the power of race in our modern consciousness.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 AcknowledgementsChapter 3 IntroductionChapter 4 Part 1: The First Complex Societies to Modern TimesPart 5 1. Race, Science, and Human Origins in AfricaPart 6 2. Race and the Rise of the Swahili CulturePart 7 3. 'Caste'-[ing] Gender: Caste and Patriarchy in Ancient Hindu JurisprudencePart 8 4. Comparative Race and Slavery in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity: Texts, Practices, and Current ImplicationsPart 9 5. The Dark Craven Jew: Race and Religion in Medieval EuropePart 10 6. Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Racial Slavery in the New WorldPart 11 7. The Yellow Lady: Mulatto Women in the Suriname PlantocracyChapter 12 Part 2: Race and Mixed Race in the AmericasPart 13 8. Critical Mixed Race Studies: New Approaches to Resistance and Social JusticePart 14 9. Militant Multiraciality: Rejecting Race and Rejecting the Conveniences of ComplicityPart 15 10. Whiteness Reconstructed: Multiracial Identity as a Category of "New White"Part 16 11. Conversations in Black and White: The Limitations of Binary Thinking About Race in AmericaPart 17 12. The Necessity of a Multiracial Category in a Race-Conscious SocietyPart 18 13. Mixed Race Terminologies in the Americas: Globalizing the Creole in the Twenty First CenturyPart 19 14. Examining the Regional and Multigenerational Context of Creole and American Indian IdentityPart 20 15. Race, Class, and Power: The Politics of Multiraciality in BrazilPart 21 16. All Mixed Up: A New Racial Commonsense in Global PerspectiveChapter 22 Part 3: Race, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Contemporary SocietiesPart 23 17. Black No More: African Americans and the 'New' Race SciencePart 24 18. Contesting Identities of Color: African Female Immigrants in the AmericasPart 25 19. Burdened Intersections: Black Women and Race, Gender, and ClassPart 26 20. Ethnic Conflicts in the Middle East: A Comparative Analysis of Communal Violence within the Matrix of the Colonial Legacy, Globalization, and Global StabilityPart 27 21. Ethnic Identity in China: The Politics of Cultural DifferencePart 28 22. Shangri-la has Forsaken Us: China's Ethnic Minorities, Identity, and Government RepressionPart 29 23. The Russian/Chechen Conflict and It's ConsequencesChapter 30 ContributorsChapter 31 Index