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  • Beyond Race: Human Biological Diversity (Third Edition)

    Beyond Race: Human Biological Diversity (Third Edition) Cognella 2013 Joelle Presson, Affiliate Research Assistant Professor Department of Biology University of Maryland Jan Jenner University of Alabama, Birmingham Race. It’s an idea that dominates our culture and continues to generate societal tensions. But what really are human races? Are races meaningful in a biological sense? What…

  • The Mismeasure of Man

    The Mismeasure of Man W. W. Norton & Company June 1996 (Originally published in 1981) 448 pages 5.5 × 8.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-31425-0 Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology Harvard University The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure…

  • 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,…

  • Racial Theories in Context (Second Edition)

    Racial Theories in Context (Second Edition) Cognella 2013 224 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60927-056-8 Edited by: Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine This book presents a critical framework for understanding how and why race matters — past, present, and future. The readings trace the historical…

  • Race and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy

    Race and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy Cognella 2011 436 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-93555-160-7 Edited by: Rashawn Ray, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Maryland, College Park This book examines the major theoretical and empirical approaches regarding race/ethnicity. Its goal is to continue to place race and ethnic relations…

  • Racial Myths

    Human miscegenation has been and is the subject of infinite debate. Opinions on the subject are conditioned by the views of the disputants on race and racial differences, the opponents of miscegenation starting from the assumption of racial inequality, whereas its defenders take the view that the differences between human groups are not such as…

  • Blue Skies and Thunder: Farm Boy, Pilot, Inventor, TSA Officer, and WW II Soldier of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team

    Blue Skies and Thunder: Farm Boy, Pilot, Inventor, TSA Officer, and WW II Soldier of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team iUniverse 2009-12-21 296 pages E-Book ISBN: 978-1-44018-258-7 Virgil W. Westdale with Stephanie A. Gerdes In 1942, Virgil Westdale was a successful young flight instructor when the government ousted him from the Air Corps and demoted…

  • The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, A Search for Family

    The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, A Search for Family Free Press (an Imprint of Simon & Schuster) October 2012 320 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781451627480 eBook ISBN: 9781451627619 Joe Mozingo “My dad’s family was a mystery,” writes prize-winning journalist Joe Mozingo. Growing up, he knew that his mother’s ancestors were…

  • It’s Not Always Black And White: Caught Between Two Worlds

    It’s Not Always Black And White: Caught Between Two Worlds Outskirts Press 2013-01-18 100 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781478716693 John Reed, Ph.D. John Reed knows from experience how difficult the life of a biracial person can be. He was born in Germany after World War II to a German-Caucasian mother and an African-American father. The difficulty…

  • Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls: Being ‘Half’ in Japan

    Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls: Being ‘Half’ in Japan Multilingual Matters 2009-12-03 280 pages 210 x 148 (A5) Paperback ISBN: 9781847692320 Hardback ISBN: 9781847692337 Laurel Kamada, Lecturer Professor Tohoku University, Japan This is the first in-depth examination of “half-Japanese” girls in Japan focusing on ethnic, gendered and embodied ‘hybrid’ identities. Challenging the myth of Japan…