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  • Uncompromising Activist: Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College

    Richard Theodore Greener (1844–1922) was a renowned black activist and scholar. In 1870, he was the first black graduate of Harvard College.

  • The Mysteries of New Orleans

    A lost classic of America’s neglected German-language literary tradition, “The Mysteries of New Orleans” by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein first appeared as a serial in the Louisiana Staats-Zeitung, a New Orleans German-language newspaper, between 1854 and 1855.

  • New Orleans after the Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom

    We often think of Reconstruction as an unfinished revolution. Justin A. Nystrom’s original study of the aftermath of emancipation in New Orleans takes a different perspective, arguing that the politics of the era were less of a binary struggle over political supremacy and morality than they were about a quest for stability in a world…

  • Race: The History of an Idea in the West

    Race: The History of an Idea in the West Johns Hopkins University Press May 1996 464 pages Paperback (on-demand) ISBN: 9780801852237 Ivan Hannaford In Race: The History of an Idea in the West Ivan Hannaford guides readers through a dangerous engagement with an idea that so permeates Western thinking that we expect to find it,…

  • Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans

    Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans Johns Hopkins University Press 2009 352 pages 7 halftones Hardback ISBN: 9780801886805 Jennifer M. Spear, Associate Professor of History Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Winner, 2009 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Lousiana History, The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association…

  • Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780–1880

    Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780–1880 Johns Hopkins University Press 2007 344 pages 11 halftones, 2 line drawings Hardback ISBN: 9780801886942; Paperback ISBN: 9780801898198 Daniel R. Mandell, Professor of History Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri Winner, 2008 Lawrence W. Levine Award, Organization of American Historians Tribe, Race, History examines American Indian…

  • Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia

    Drawing on extensive anthropological fieldwork, Peter Wade shows how the concept of “blackness” and discrimination are deeply embedded in different social levels and contexts—from region to neighborhood, and from politics and economics to housing, marriage, music, and personal identity.

  • Mixing Races: From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas

    This book explores changing American views of race mixing in the twentieth century, showing how new scientific ideas transformed accepted notions of race and how those ideas played out on college campuses in the 1960s.

  • The Cosmic Race / La Raza Cósmica

    The Cosmic Race / La Raza Cósmica Johns Hopkins University Press 1997 (originally published in 1925) 160 pages Paperback: 9780801856556 José Vasconcelos translated, with an introduction, by Didier T. Jaén afterword by Joseba Gabilondo “The days of the pure whites, the victors of today, are as numbered as were the days of their predecessors. Having…

  • Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties

    In “Race Mixing,” Suzanne Jones offers insightful and provocative readings of contemporary novels, the work of a wide range of writers—black and white, established and emerging.