Neil Brooks and Teresa Hubel: Introduction1 Peter Clandfield: "What Is In My Blood?": Contemporary Black Scottishness and the work of Jackie Kay 2 Neluka Silva: "Everyone was Vaguely Related": Hybridity and the Politics of Race in Sri Lankan Literary Discourses in English3 Teresa Zackodnik: Passing Transgressions and Authentic Identity in Jessie Fauset's Plum Bunand Nella Larsen's Passing4 Myriam Perregaux: Whiteness as Unstable Construction: Kate Pullinger's The Last Time I Saw Jane5 Bella Adams: Becoming Chinese: Racial Ambiguity in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club6 Jennifer Sparrow: Strategic Créolité. Caliban and Miranda after Empire 7 Jennifer Gibbs: White Identity and the New Ethic in Faulkner's Light In August8 Elizabeth DeLoughrey: White Fathers, Brown Daughters: the Frisbie Family Romance and the American Pacific9 Rita Keresztesi Treat: Writing Culture and Performing Race in Mourning Dove's Cogewea, The Half-Blood '(1927) 10 Kathryn Nicol: Visible Differences: Viewing Racial Identity in Toni Morrison's Paradiseand "Recitatif"11 Yvette Tan: Looking Different/Rethinking Difference: Global Constants and/or Contradictory Characteristics in Yasmine Gooneratne's A Change of Skiesand. Adib Kalim's Seasonal Adjustments12 Margaret D. Stetz: Jessie Fauset's Fiction: Reconsidering Race and Revising Aestheticism 13 Paul AlIatson: "I May Create A Monster": Cherríe Moraga's Transcultural Conundrum 14 Michele Hunter: Revisiting the Third Space: Reading Danzy Senna's CaucasiaNotes on the Authors