Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, (2002). First edition - "The first scholarly attempt to map the rapidly emerging field of mixed-race literature, defined as texts written by authors who represent multiple cultural and literary traditionsAfrican-European, Native-European, Eurasian, African-Asian, and Native-African American. . . The essays examine such subjects as mythmaking and interpreting; the illustration of mixed-race texts; the mixed-race drama of Velina Hasu Houston; race, gender, and transnational spaces; the meaning and negotiation of identity; the theory of kin-aesthetic in Asian-Native American literatures; and Maori-Pakeha mixed-race writing in New Zealand." Introduction by editor, notes at end of each essay. Index, 234 pp. ISBN: 0-804736405.