Tag: Peter Lang Publishing Group

  • “Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany,” republished in a new annotated edition, recounts Ika Hügel-Marshall’s experiences growing up as the daughter of a white German woman and an African-American man after World War II.

  • Dreams and Nightmares of a White Australia: Representing Aboriginal Assimilation in the Mid-twentieth Century Peter Lang Publishing Group 2009 257 pages Weight: 0.410 kg, 0.904 lbs Paperback ISBN:  978-3-03911-722-2 Series: Studies in Asia-Pacific “Mixed Race” (Volume 3) Catriona Elder, Professor of Sociology University of Syndney By the mid-twentieth century the various Australian states began changing their…

  • Visibly Different: Face, Place and Race in Australia Peter Lang Publishing Group 2007 186 pages Weight: 0.330 kg, 0.728 lbs Paperback ISBN: 978-3-03911-323-1 Series: Studies in Asia-Pacific “Mixed Race” (Volume 2) Edited by: Maureen Perkins, Associate Professor of History, Anthropology and Sociology Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia What does an Australian look like? Many Australians assume…

  • Midnight’s Orphans: Anglo-Indians in Post/Colonial Literature Peter Lang 2006 265 pages Weight: 0.370 kg, 0.816 lbs Paperback ISBN: 978-3-03910-848-0 Series: Studies in Asia-Pacific “Mixed Race” Glenn D’Cruz, Senior Lecturer School of Communication and Creative Arts Deakin University, Australia Anglo-Indians are the human legacy of European colonialism. These descendants of European men and Indian women regularly…

  • Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility Peter Lang Publishing Group 2010 146 pages Hardback ISBN 978-1-4331-0803-7 Edited by Cybelle H. McFadden, Assistant Professor of French University of North Carolina, Greensboro Sandrine F. Teixidor, Assistant Professor of French Studies Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility underscores the writing of authors who foreground…

  • Taboo: Essays on Culture and Education Peter Lang Publishing Group 2010 250 pages Paparback ISBN: 978-1-4331-0840-2 Edited by: Shirley R. Steinberg McGill University Lindsay Cornish Taboo: Essays on Culture and Education is a collection of 15 compelling and controversial articles from the pages of Taboo: The Journal of Cultural Studies and Education. Scholars including Henry…

  • Zadie Smith: Critical Essays Peter Lang Publishing Group March 2008 221 pages Paparback ISBN: 9978-0-8204-8806-6 Edited by: Tracey L. Walters, Associate Professor of Literature Stony Brook University Zadie Smith: Critical Essays is a timely collection of critical articles examining how Zadie Smith‘s novels and short stories interrogate race, postcolonialism, and identity. Essays explore the various…

  • “Assimilating the Primitive”: Parallel Dialogues on Racial Miscegenation in Revolutionary Mexico Peter Lang Publishing Group 2004 179 pages, 4 tables Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8204-6322-3 Kelley R. Swarthout, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Colgate University, New York This book examines the Mexican nationalist rhetoric that promoted race mixing as a cultural ideal, placing it within its broader…

  • The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination Peter Lang Publishing Group 2004 198 pages ISBN: 978-0-8204-6206-6 Carlyle Van Thompson, Acting Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Education Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York The Tragic Black Buck examines the phenomenon, often paradoxical, of black males passing for white…

  • Census and Consensus? A Historical Examination of the US Census Racial Terminology Used for American Residents of African Ancestry Peter Lang Publishing Group 2005-07-31 232 pages 20.6 x 14.7 x 1.5 cm US-ISBN: 978-0-8204-7667-4 Iman Makeba Laversuch, Lecturer University of Cologne, Germany Colored, Black, Negro, Mulatto, Quadroon, Octoroon, African American. This book provides an in-depth…