Category: Books

  • In “Chocolate and Corn Flour,” Laura A. Lewis explores the history and contemporary culture of San Nicolás, focusing on the ways in which local inhabitants experience and understand race, blackness, and indigeneity, as well as on the cultural values that outsiders place on the community and its residents.

  • Darling: New & Selected Poems Bloodaxe Books 2007 224 pages Paperback ISBN: 1 85224 777 0 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University Humour, gender, sexuality, sensuality, identity, racism, cultural difference: when do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay’s part of the equation. Darling brings together into…

  • An Evening with Our New Poet Laureate MixedRaceStudies.org 2012-09-16 Steven F. Riley 2012-2013 U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Library of Congress (2012-09-13).©2012, Steven F. Riley Natasha Trethewey is preoccupied about race. It is a fruitful preoccupation for which we all should be grateful. [View the inaugural reading transcript here.] Last Thursday, Emory University Professor Trethewey gave…

  • Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line Belknap Press (an imprint of Harvard University Press) January 2002 416 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 1 halftone Paperback ISBN: 9780674006690 Paul Gilroy, Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory London School of Economics After all the “progress” made since World War II in matters pertaining to…

  • Is postraciality just around the corner? How realistic are the often-heard pronouncements that mixed-race identity is leading the United States to its postracial future? In his provocative analysis, Rainier Spencer illuminates the assumptions that multiracial ideology in fact shares with concepts of both white supremacy and antiblackness.

  • “Man’s Most Dangerous Myth” was first published in 1942, when Nazism flourished, when African Americans sat at the back of the bus, and when race was considered the determinant of people’s character and intelligence.

  • The Equality of the Human Races University of Illinois Press 2002 (First published in 1885) 536 pages 5.5 x 8 in. 6 black & white photographs, 12 tables Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07102-7 Anténor Firmin (1850-1911) Translated from the French by: Asselin Charles Introduction by: Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Rhode Island College Positivist Anthropology This…

  • Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom University of California Press February 2005 329 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520241329 Paperback ISBN: 9780520250024 Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association Frederick Jackson…

  • “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.

  • The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism Indiana University Press 2007-05-22 320 pages 22 b&w photos 6.125 x 9.25 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-253-21927-5; Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-34902-6 Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz exposes and challenges the common assumptions about whom and what Jews are, by presenting in their own voices, Jews of color from the Iberian…