Cover -- RACE IN MIND -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- RACE AND ETHNICITY -- 1 The Illogic of American Racial Categories -- 2 Mapping Race: Multiracial People and Racial Category Construction in the United States and Britain -- 3 What's Critical about White Studies -- 4 Race and Nation, Identity and Power: Thinking Comparatively about Ethnic Systems -- 5 From the Black Atlantic to the Racial Pacific: Rethinking Racial Hierarchy in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts -- 6 The Return of Scientific Racism? DNA Ancestry Testing, Race, and the New Eugenics Movement -- MIXED RACE -- 7 What Must I Be? Asian Americans and the Question of Multiethnic Identity -- 8 The Power of Blackness: Mixed-Race Leaders and the Monoracial Ideal -- 9 Pacific Islander Americans and Multiethnicity: A Vision of America's Future? -- 10 Carving Out a Middle Ground: Making Race in Hawai'i -- 11 Does Multiraciality Lighten? Me-Too Ethnicity and the Whiteness Trap -- 12 It's Not That Simple: Multiraciality, Models, and Social Hierarchy -- 13 Obama Nation? Race, Multiraciality, and American Identity -- Suggested Reading -- Index.