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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSeeing 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. * Journal of American Ethnic History, Fall 2009 *
Table of ContentsPart 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction: From the Legacy of Ing "Doc" Hay to Reading Ethnicity in Oregon History Part 3 I: Demographics Chapter 4 Racialized Minority Demographics of Oregon Part 5 II: A Legacy of Racialization Chapter 6 "A Mistake to Simmer the Question Down to Black and White:" The History of Oregon's Miscengenation Law Chapter 7 Japanese Americans in Eastern Oregon: The Wartime Roots of an Unexpected Community Part 8 III: Indigenous Peoples and Early Communities of Color Chapter 9 Ethnicity, Solidarity, and Tradition: A Study into the Dynamics and Complexities of the Chinese Immigrant Community in John Day Chapter 10 A Very Prejudiced State: Discrimination in Oregon from 1900-1940 Chapter 11 "We are tired of cookies and old clothes:" From Poverty Programs to Community Empowerment among Oregon's mexicano Poluation, 1957-1975 Chapter 12 Lumber, Railroads, Factories, and Silicon: Asian and Pacific Islander Americans and Work in Oregon Part 12 IV: Race and Labor Chapter 13 Mixtec Farmworkers in Oregon: Linking Labor and Ethnicity through Farmworker Unions, Hometown Associations and Pan-Indigenous Organizing Part 15 V: History and Memory Chapter 16 Oral Narratives of the Klamath Termination: Using Video to Record Memory Chapter 17 Celilo Falls: Parallel Lives Along N'Che Wana Chapter 18 Defying Definition: Portraits of Arab Oregonians Part 19 VI: Politics and Social Control Chapter 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 Complex Part 22 Appendix
