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  • The Evolution and Genetics of Latin American Populations

    The Evolution and Genetics of Latin American Populations Cambridge University Press December 2001 528 pages 12 b/w illus. 128 tables 228 x 152 mm Hardback ISBN: 9780521652759 Paperback ISBN: ISBN:9780521022392 eBook ISBN: 9780511837128 Francisco M. Salzano Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biociências Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Maria C. Bortolini Universidade Federal…

  • Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937

    Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937 New York University Press October 2011 228 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780814752555 Paper ISBN: 9780814752562 Julia H. Lee, Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies University of Texas, Austin 2013 Honorable Mention, Asian American Studies Association’s prize in Literary Studies Why do black characters…

  • Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861

    Laws and cultural norms militated against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War, and yet it was ubiquitous in cities, towns, and plantation communities throughout the state. In “Notorious in the Neighborhood,” Joshua Rothman examines the full spectrum of interracial sexual relationships under slavery—from Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the intertwined interracial families of…

  • Africa in Europe: Studies in Transnational Practice in the Long Twentieth Century

    This volume explores the lives and activities of people of African descent in Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the twenty-first century.

  • Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self

    Hopkins tells the story of Reuel Briggs, a medical student who couldn’t care less about being black and appreciating African history, but finds himself in Ethiopia on an archeological trip. His motive is to raid the country of lost treasures—which he does find in the ancient land. However, he discovers much more than he bargained…

  • The Bone People: A Novel (Hardcover Reissue)

    Integrating both Māori myth and New Zealand reality, The Bone People became the most successful novel in New Zealand publishing history when it appeared in 1984. Set on the South Island beaches of New Zealand, a harsh environment, the novel chronicles the complicated relationships between three emotional outcasts of mixed European and Māori heritage.

  • The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White

    The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White University of Iowa Press April 2013 144 pages 5 ¾ x 9 ¼ Paper ISBN: 1-60938-160-2; 978-1-60938-160-8 Aisha Sabatini Sloan In these intertwined essays on art, music, and identity, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, the daughter of African American and Italian American parents,…

  • Dividing Lines: Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction

    Dividing Lines: Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction University of Michigan Press 2013 232 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-472-11861-8 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-472-02890-0 Andreá N. Williams, Associate Professor of English Ohio State University Photograph of John and Lugenia Burns Hope and family, undated, Atlanta University Photographs—Individuals, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library (Pictured…

  • Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans

    In “Spectacular Wickedness,” Emily Epstein Landau examines the social history of this famed district within the cultural context of developing racial, sexual, and gender ideologies and practices.

  • Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880–1920

    Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880–1920 University of Arkansas Press 2000 464 pages 64 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55728-593-5 | 1-55728-593-4 Willard B. Gatewood, Alumni Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus University of Arkansas, Fayetteville This monumental work is a classic study of the black “aristocracy” which developed in the United States in the years following…