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  • Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire

    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…

  • Paint the White House Black: Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America

    Paint the White House Black: Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America Stanford University Press 2013 224 pages 2 tables Cloth ISBN: 9780804780957 Paper ISBN: 9780804780964 E-book ISBN: 9780804785570 Michael P. Jeffries, Sidney R. Knafel Assistant Professor of American Studies Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Barack Obama’s election as the first black president in…

  • Mixed Asian Americans and Health: Navigating Uncharted Waters

    Mixed Asian Americans and Health: Navigating Uncharted Waters Chapter in: Handbook of Asian American Health Springer 2013 pages 129-134 Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-2226-6 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-2227-3 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-2227-3 Edited by: Grace J. Yoo San Francisco State University   Mai-Nhung Le San Francisco State University Alan Y. Oda Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California Chapter Author: Cathy J.…

  • The Other Half of My Heart

    The Other Half of My Heart Random House June 2010 304 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-385-73440-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-440-24006-8 Sundee T. Frazier The close relationship of a pair of biracial twins is tested when their grandmother enters them in a pageant for African American girls in this new story from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent…

  • Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora

    A decade in the making, Emily Raboteau’s “Searching for Zion” takes readers around the world on an unexpected adventure of faith. Both one woman’s quest for a place to call “home” and an investigation into a people’s search for the Promised Land, this landmark work of creative nonfiction is a trenchant inquiry into contemporary and…

  • Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State, Customary Law, and the New Civil Rights Response

    Hernández is the first author to thoroughly consider the role of customary law in erecting and sustaining racial hierarchies

  • Love Against the Law: The autobiographies of Tex and Nelly Camfoo

    Love Against the Law: The autobiographies of Tex and Nelly Camfoo Aboriginal Studies Press 2000 120 pages 240×170 mm ISBN 9780855753481 Tex Camfoo Nelly Camfoo Edited by: Gillian Cowlishaw During his life, Tex Camfoo has been classified as Aboriginal, half-caste and European. As a half-caste he could not legally associate with or marry an Aboriginal…

  • Being Black: Aboriginal Cultures in ‘settled’ Australia

    Being Black: Aboriginal Cultures in ‘settled’ Australia Aboriginal Studies Press 1988; Reprinted 1991 288 pages 240×170 mm ISBN: 9780855751852 Edited by: Ian Keen, Visiting Fellow School of Archaeology and Anthropology College of Arts and Social Sciences The Australian National University This volume brings together results of research by anthropologists on the social life of people…

  • In Every Tongue: The Racial & Ethnic Diversity of the Jewish People

    This book explodes the myth of a single authentic Judaism and shines a bright light on the thousands of ethnically and racially diverse Jews in the United States who live full and rich Jewish lives. It is impossible to read “In Every Tongue” without coming away with a deeper respect for and a broader understanding…

  • Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House

    Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House Paradigm Publishers February 2011 288 pages 6″ x 9″ Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-59451-833-1 EBook ISBN: 978-1-61205-000-3 Kenneth T. Walsh This book examines the intertwined relationships between the presidents and the African Americans who have been an integral part of the White House since the beginning…