AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Paul R. Spickard is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of many books including Race and Nation: Ethnic Systems in the Modern World and Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity.

REVIEWS

“Paul R. Spickard has performed a tremendous service to historians and other students of ethnicity in writing this study of the historic patterns and changing meanings of out-group marriage. In focusing on the experiences of those Japanese Americans, American Jews, and African Americans who chose to wed nongroup members, and conversely on the experiences of white, Christian Americans as they took spouses from these three minority groups, the author seeks to link social structure and cultural constructs as explanations for particular patterns. … Spickard in no place denigrates the passionate feelings of group members worried about intermarriage or its implications for ethnic cohesion; he offers instead an alternative, cooler way of looking at the issues.”—Hasia R. Diner, American Historical Review

"Mixed Blood serves an important function in drawing together a far-ranging set of experiences, all of which bear on the phenomenon of intermarriage. Spickard also broadens the reader's scope of reference in comprehending the forces driving intermarriage, through his introduction of cultural themes of acceptance."—Deanna Matsumoto, Amerasia Journal

"A sensitive and informative work on a topic of major importance."—Ronald C. Johnson, Journal of Marriage and the Family

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Acknowledgments

1.
The Problem of Intermarriage

Ideas about Intermarriage

Ideas about Ethnicity

The Scope of This Study

Terms

Part I.
Japanese Americans

2.
Background and Images: Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan

Issei, Nisei, Sansei

Changing Images of Japanese Americans

Japanese Americans' Ideas about Non-Japanese and about Intermarriage

3.
Dimensions of Intermarriage: Old Barriers Fall

Generations and Intermarriage

Japanese American Reactions to Intermarriage

Other Americans' Reactions to Intermarriage with Japanese

Regional Differences in Intermarriage

Intermarriage and Social Class

4.
Issues and Interpretations: Japanese, American, or Something in Between?

Intermarriage within the Japanese Group

A Hierarchy of Choice

Outmarriage and Divorce

Children of Japanese American Intermarriage

Summary of Part I

Part II.
Madam Butterfly Revisited

5.
American Men and Japanese Women after World War II

GIs and Japanese Women

Dating and Marrying

Adjustment to America

Children of War Brides in America

Konketsuji: Mixed Children in Japan

Summary of Part II

Part III.
Jewish Americans

6.
Background and Images: Shikse and Jewish Mother

Jewish Intermarriage in the Ancient World

Intermarriage and Jewish-Gentile Relations in Europe

American Jewish Intermarriage: Sephardim and German Jews

The Orthodox Invasion

Mutual Images

7.
Dimensions of Intermarriage: Separate Identity amid Growing Acceptance

The Generations and Intermarriage

Jews Respond to Intermarriage

Gentiles Respond to Intermarriage with Jews

Regional Differences in Intermarriage

Class Differences in Intermarriage

Denominational Differences in Intermarriage

8.
Issues and Interpretations: According to the Halakhah

The Intermarried Personality

Cleavages within the Group

The Hierarchy

Intermarriage and Conversion

Intermarriage and Divorce

What of the Children?

Summary of Part III

Part IV.
Black Americans

9.
Background and Images: The Core of the Heart

Miscegenation before the Civil War

Mutual Images

10.
Dimensions of Intermarriage: The Wall Remains

Black Intermarriage over Time and Generation

White Reactions to Interracial Marriage

Black Reactions to Interracial Marriage

Regional Differences in Intermarriage

Class Differences in Interracial Marriage

11.
Issues and Interpretations: Passing Is Passé

The Psychology of Interracial Mating

Varieties of Black Americans

Hierarchies of Choice

Interracial Marriage and Divorce

Mulattoes and Passing

Summary of Part IV

12.
Conclusion

Some Comparisons

Intermarriage Theories Reconsidered

Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity

Appendix A:
Summary of States' Laws on Interracial Marriage

Appendix B:
Interracial Family Organizations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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