Paul Spickard

Paul R. Spickard (born 1950) is an American historian and the author of several books on the subject of race and ethnicity, particularly multiracialism.^[1][2] His work was formative in rearticulating and moving beyond a black-white paradigm of race and mixed-race relations in the U.S.^[3]

Paul Spickard
Occupation	Professor, Author
Nationality	American
Education	Harvard University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Subject	History, Ethnic Studies, Religious Studies, Critical Mixed Race Studies

Spickard grew up in a working class and Black neighborhood in Seattle.^[4] He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and his undergraduate degree from Harvard University.^[5] He served as the Director of Research at the Institute for Polynesian Studies in Honolulu^[2] as well as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at BYU-Hawaii.^[5] In 2013, Spickard was named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians.^[6] In 2011, Spickard co-founded the Journal for Critical Mixed Race Studies.^[7] He currently teaches as a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara,^[1] where he is also an affiliate faculty in Asian American Studies and Religious Studies.^[8]

Bibliography

• Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC (2007), ISBN 0-415-93593-8
• Japanese Americans: The Formation and Transformations of an Ethnic Group, Rutgers University Press (2008), Twayn Publishers (1996)
• Is Lighter Better? Skin-Tone Discrimination among Asian Americans (2007)
• Race and Nation: Ethnic Systems in the Modern World (2005)
• Racial Thinking in the United States (2004)
• Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America (1989)
• A Global History of Christians: How Everyday Believers Experienced Their World, co-authored with Kevin M. Cragg, Baker Academic (2008), ISBN 978-0-8010-2249-4, previously published as God's Peoples: A Social History of Christians, Baker Books (1994)

Awards

In 2011, Spickard was awarded The Loving Prize at the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival for his groundbreaking research on mixed racial and cultural experiences.^[1][9] He has also been named a Fulbright Research Professor and Rockefeller Foundation Residential Fellow.^[10] In 2013, he received the Richard A. Yarborough Mentoring Award from the American Studies Association^[11] and has received over a dozen teaching awards at UCSB.^[1]