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  • Germany and the Black Diaspora: Points of Contact, 1250-1914

    The contributors present a wide range of Black–German encounters, from representations of Black saints in religious medieval art to Black Hessians fighting in the American Revolutionary War, from Cameroonian children being educated in Germany to African American agriculturalists in Germany’s protectorate, Togoland.

  • Ethnic Identity Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century – Fourth Edition

    Ethnic Identity Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century – Fourth Edition AltaMira Press June 2006 436 pages 7 x 9 1/4 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7591-0972-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7591-0973-5 Edited by: Lola Romanucci-Ross, Professor Emerita of Family and Preventive Medicine University of California, San Diego De George A. Vos (1922-2010), Professor Emeritus of Anthropology University of…

  • Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone

    “Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone” tackles the hidden yet painful issue of colorism in the African American and Mexican American communities.

  • Beyond Blood Identities: Posthumanity in the Twenty-First Century

    Beyond Blood Identities: Posthumanity in the Twenty-First Century Lexington Books: an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield October 2009 262 pages 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7391-3842-7 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7391-3843-4 eBook ISBN: 978-0-7391-3844-1 Jason D. Hill, Professor of Philosophy DePaul University Beyond Blood Identities uncovers the social psychology of those who hold strong blood…

  • Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943

    In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown.

  • Who Is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide

    Who Is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide Lynne Rienner 2003 230 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-1-58826-337-7 George Yancey, Professor of Sociology University of North Texas “By the year 2050, whites will be a numerical racial minority, albeit the largest minority, in the United States.” This statement, asserts George Yancey, while statistically correct, is…

  • Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22

    Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22 HarperCollins 2011-03-15 336 pages Trimsize: 6 3/4 x 9 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 9780062009234; ISBN10: 0062009230 eBook ISBN: 9780062078650; ISBN10: 0062078658 MariNaomi From her father and mother’s interracial marriage to her own “you show me yours, I’ll show you mine” moments on the playground—from drug experimentation…

  • Miracle Fruit

    Miracle Fruit Tupelo Press 2003 86 pages 9.1 x 6 x 0.3 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9710310-8-1 Aimee Nezhukumatathil As three worlds collide, a mother’s Philippines, a father’s India, and the poet’s contemporary America, the resulting impressions are chronicled in this collection of incisive and penetrating verse. The writer weaves her words carefully into a wise…

  • New Faces, Old Faces: Counting the Multiracial Population Past and Present

    Multiracial Americans have often been heralded as “new people” and in fact have been rediscovered as such more than once in the last century. Charles Chesnutt’s 1899 novel The House Behind the Cedars features a mulatto character who uses the phrase to describe himself and others like him; in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s,…

  • The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization

    The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization Routledge 2002-09-06 272 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-92879-3 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-92878-6 Serge Gruzinski, Research Director National Scientific Research Center (CNRS, Paris) Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically, a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry. Serge Gruzinski, the renowned historian of Latin America, offers…