Category: Books

  • Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond HarperCollins 2005 240 pages Trimsize: 6 x 9 Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780060761424; ISBN10: 0060761423 Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem Breaking nearly eight decades of silence, Essie Mae Washington-Williams comes forward with a story of unique historical magnitude and incredible human drama. Her father, the…

  • Questions the ramifications of multiracialism for progressive social change.

  • The Biracial and Multiracial Student Experience: A Journey to Racial Literacy SAGE Publications 2009-06-30 168 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781412975063 Hardcover ISBN: 9781412975056 Bonnie M. Davis What does it mean to be “in between”? As more biracial and multiracial students enter the classroom, educators have begun to critically examine the concept of race. Through compelling student…

  • The Negro: A Menace to American Civilization The Gorham Press 1907 281 pages Library of Congress: E185.61 .S38 R. W. Shufeldt, M.D. (1850-1934) Contents I. Man’s Place in Nature from a Biological Standpoint. II. The Ethnological Status of the Negro. III. The Introduction of the Negro into the United States.—The African Slave Trade. IV. Biological…

  • The Relations of the Advanced and the Backward Races of Mankind Clarendon Press 1903 53 pages James Bryce From page 18: Nothing really arrests intermarriage except physical repulsion, and physical repulsion exists only where there is a marked difference in physical aspect, and especially in colour. Roughly speaking (and subject to certain exceptions to be…

  • Race Relations in Virginia & Miscegenation in the South, 1776-1860 University of Massachusetts Press 1970 362 pages ISBN-10: 0870230506; ISBN-13: 978-0870230509 James Hugo Johnston (1891-1974), Professor of History University of Virginia Contents FOREWORD PREFACE PART I. THE RELATION OF THE NEGRO TO THE WHITE MAN IN VIRGINIA 1. Friendly Relations 2. Violent Relations 3. Free…

  • Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was Brazil’s foremost novelist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a mulatto, Machado experienced the ambiguity of racial identity throughout his life. Literary critics first interpreted Machado as an embittered misanthrope uninterested in the plight of his fellow African Brazilians.

  • Yes We Can? White Racial Framing and the Obama Presidency, 2nd Edition Routledge 292 pages 2012-12-17 Pages: 296 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-64536-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-64538-6 Adia Harvey Wingfield, Assistant Professor of Sociology Georgia State University Joe Feagin, Ella C. McFadden Professor of Sociology Texas A & M University The first edition of this book offered one of…

  • “War Baby/Love Child” examines hybrid Asian American identity through a collection of essays, artworks, and interviews at the intersection of critical mixed race studies and contemporary art.

  • Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire Knopf 2013-01-22 384 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-27283-6 eBook ISBN: 978-0-307-96115-0 Andrea Stuart In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the…