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  • Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns

    Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns Temple University Press January 2011 272 pages 6 x 9 38 tables, 23 halftones paper ISBN: 978-1-43990-276-9 cloth: ISBN: 978-1-43990-275-2 e-Book ISBN: 978-1-43990-277-6 Charlton D. McIlwain, Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication New York University Stephen M. Caliendo, Professor of Political Science North Central…

  • Disability and Passing: Blurring the Lines of Identity

    Disability and Passing: Blurring the Lines of Identity Temple University Press May 2013 218 pages 5.5 x 8.25; 1 halftone Paper EAN: 978-1-43990-980-5 Cloth EAN: 978-1-43990-979-9 eBook EAN: 978-1-43990-981-2 Edited by: Jeffrey A. Brune, Assistant Professor of History Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. Daniel J. Wilson, Professor of History Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania Passing—an act usually…

  • The United States of Mestizo

    The United States of Mestizo John F. Blair, Publisher 2013-01-01 48 pages 4¼ x 5½ 978-1-58838-288-7 ebook ISBN: 978-1-60306-200-8 Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts This powerful manifesto attests to the fundamental changes the nation has undergone in the last half-century. Ilan Stavans meditates on the way…

  • Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race

    Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race University of Illinois Press 2014 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25 in. 5 black & white photographs Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03811-2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07959-7 Wanda A. Hendricks, Associate Professor of History University of South Carolina The biography of a key activist of the Progressive Era Born shortly…

  • Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival

    Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival University of Illinois Press May 2013 216 pages 6 x 9 in. 16 black & white photographs, 3 maps Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03751-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07901-6 Jean Muteba Rahier, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies Florida International University…

  • Seeing Race in Modern America

    Seeing Race in Modern America University of North Carolina Press November 2013 Approx. 264 pages 6.125 x 9.25 10 color plates., 97 halftones, notes, index Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4696-1068-9 Matthew Pratt Guterl, Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies Brown University In this fiercely urgent book, Matthew Pratt Guterl focuses on how and why we come…

  • The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico

    The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico University of California Press December 1980 408 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520042803 Colin M. MacLachlan, Professor of History Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Jamie E. Rodríguez, Professor of History University of California, Irvine “The Forging of the Cosmic Race” challenges the widely held notion that…

  • Changing Race: Latinos, the Census and the History of Ethnicity

    Changing Race: Latinos, the Census and the History of Ethnicity New York University Press July 2000 283 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780814775479 Clara E. Rodríguez, Professor of Sociology Fordham University Latinos are the fastest growing population group in the United States. Through their language and popular music Latinos are making their mark on American culture as…

  • The River Between Us

    The River Between Us Puffin 2005-04-21 176 pages 5.06 x 7.75 in 8 – 12 years Paperback ISBN: 9780142403105 Richard Peck Awards National Book Award: Finalist Scott O’Dell Award ALA Notable Book ALA Best Book for Young Adults Riverbank Review Children’s Books of Distinction Booklist Editor’s Choice NYPL’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing IRA…

  • Paul Marchand, F.M.C.

    Paul Marchand, F.M.C. University Press of Mississippi 1998 184 pages Paper ISBN: 978-1-57806-798-5 Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) Never before published, a 1920s novel disputes prevailing attitudes on racial character and identity Chesnutt wrote this novel at the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance, but set it in a time and place favored by George Washington Cable.…