{"product_id":"shape-shifters-lily-anne-y-welty-tamai-9781496206633","title":"Shape Shifters: Journeys Across Terrains of Race and Identity","description":"\u003ci\u003eShape Shifters\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eShape Shifters\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The essays in \u003ci\u003eShape Shifters\u003c\/i\u003e explore different historical eras and reach across 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With contributions by Ryan Abrecht, George J. S疣chez, Laura Moore, and Margaret Hunter, among others, \u003ci\u003eShape Shifters\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lily Anne Y. Welty Tamai\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496206630\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496206633\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2020","brand":"Lily Anne Y. Welty Tamai","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43985876975871,"sku":"9781496206633","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bce83e63-8ea3-4b5e-bb41-8e8ff11653cc.jpg?v=1683280069","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shape-shifters-lily-anne-y-welty-tamai-9781496206633","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}