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  • Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama

    Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama Rutgers University Press 2023-06-16 194 pages, 8 bw, 3 color 6.12 x 9.25 Paperback ISBN: 9781978835535 Cloth ISBN: 9781978835542 EPUB ISBN: 9781978835559 Kindle ISBN: 9781978835566 PDF ISBN: 9781978835573 Rena M. Heinrich, Assistant Professor of Theatre Practice University of Southern California Mixed-race Asian American plays are…

  • Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation

    “Thinking While Black” brings together the work and ideas of the most notorious film critic in America, one of the most influential intellectuals in the United Kingdom, and a political and cultural generation that consumed images of rebellion and revolution around the world as young Black teenagers in the late 1960s.

  • Between Brown and Black: Anti-Racist Activism in Brazil

    “Brown and Black” argues that Afro-Brazilian activists’ continued exploration of blackness confronts anti-blackness while complicating understandings of what it means to be black. Blending linguistic and ethnographic accounts, this book raises complex questions about current black struggles in Brazil and beyond, including the black movements’ political initiatives and antiracist agenda.

  • Mixed-Race Superheroes

    The essays in this collection contend with the multitude of ways that racial mixedness has been presented in superhero comics, films, television, and literature.

  • Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity

    “Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity” explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection of aesthetics and ideology and its productive tensions.

  • Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture

    Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture Rutgers University Press 2018-10-17 296 pages 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-9788-0130-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-9788-0131-8 PDF ISBN: 978-1-9788-0134-9 EPUB ISBN: 978-1-9788-0132-5 MobiPocket ISBN: 978-1-9788-0133-2 Edited by: Domino Perez, Associate Professor of English University of Texas, Austin Rachel González-Martin, Assistant Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies University of…

  • Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize

    Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize Rutgers University Press 2018-11-01 226 pages 24 b&w images 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8135-9698-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-9699-0 EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8135-9700-3 MobiPocket ISBN: 978-0-8135-9701-0 PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-9702-7 Melissa A. Johnson, Professor of Anthropology Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas Becoming Creole explores how people become who they are through their…

  • Red and Yellow, Black and Brown: Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies

    “Red and Yellow, Black and Brown” gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often very different dynamics that exist for mixed race people who are not part white. The chapters focus on the social, psychological, and political situations of mixed race people who have links to…

  • Redefining Japaneseness: Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland

    Redefining Japaneseness: Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland Rutgers University Press 2017-01-24 224 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-7637-4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-7636-7 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-7639-8 ePub ISBN: 978-0-8135-7638-1 Jane H. Yamashiro, Visiting Scholar Asian American Studies Center University of California, Los Angeles There is a rich body of literature on the experience of…

  • The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola

    The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola Rutgers University Press November 2016 200 pages 9 photographs, 2 figures, 2 maps, 8 tables 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-8448-5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-8447-8 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-8450-8 epub ISBN: 978-0-8135-8449-2 Milagros Ricourt, Associate Professor of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies…