In this KCSB Public Affairs Spotlight, KCSB's Kat Sitnikova speaks with Paul Spickard, a distinguished professor at UCSB in the areas of Comparative Race and Ethnicity, US Social and Cultural History (17th-21st centuries), World History, Migrations and Identities.

Professor Spickard currently teaches Immigration and Race in US History since 1924 and History of the Pacific. The conversation covers the professor's current projects, Shape Shifting: Reflections on Racial Plasticity and Growing Up Ethnic in Germany.