Category: Books

  • Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference Duke University Press October 2012 280 pages 5 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5344-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5329-4 Anne Pollock, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in…

  • The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing 2012-05-15 220 pages 5 x 8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-936214-71-6 Tara L. Masih, Writer & Editor Award-winning editor Tara L. Masih put out a call in 2007 for Intercultural Essays dealing with the subjects of “culture, race, and a sense of place.” The prizewinners are gathered for the…

  • Passing for Black in Seventeenth-Century Maryland Chapter in: Interpreting the Early Modern World: Transatlantic Perspectives Springer 2011 246 pages eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-70759-4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-70758-7 Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2709-4 Edited by: Mary C. Beaudry and James Symonds Chapter Authors: Julia A. King, Associate Professor of Anthropology St. Mary’s College of Maryland Edward E. Chaney In the…

  • Family Trees: A History of Genealogy in America Harvard University Press April 2013 250 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780674045835 François Weil, Chancellor and Professor of History; former president of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Universities of Paris The quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the…

  • Under the Skin Finch Publishing August 2012 210 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781921462801 Marion van Dyk This beautifully written and evocative memoir is a fascinating insight into the lives of her family, living under apartheid, who struggled to create a sense of identity and personal worth. It’s a book of historical relevance in its revelations about…

  • At a ceremony announcing the completion of the first draft of the human genome in 2000, President Bill Clinton declared, “I believe one of the great truths to emerge from this triumphant expedition inside the human genome is that in genetic terms, all human beings, regardless of race, are more than 99.9 percent the same.”…

  • From the acclaimed author of “Shackling Water” comes the first great race novel of the twenty-first century, an incendiary and ruthlessly funny satire about violence, pop culture, and American identity.

  • Mexican and Central American undocumented immigrants, as well as U.S. citizens such as Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans, have become a significant portion of the U.S. population. Yet the U.S. government, mainstream society, and radical activists characterize this rich diversity of peoples and cultures as one group alternatively called “Hispanics,” “Latinos,” or even the pejorative…

  • The False Laws of Narrative: The Poetry of Fred Wah Wilfrid Laurier University Press October 2009 102 pages Paper ISBN13: 978-1-55458-046-0 Fred Wah, Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate Edited by: Louis Cabri, Associate Professor of English University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada The False Laws of Narrative is a selection of Fred Wah’s poems covering the…

  • The Philosophy of Race Routledge 2011-12-14 1,584 pages Hardback: 978-0-415-49602-5 Edited by: Paul Taylor, Associate Professor of Philosophy; African American Studies Pennsylvania State University Since at least the early 1990s, philosophical race theory has emerged as a dynamic and fertile area of serious scholarly inquiry, and this new four-volume Major Work from Routledge meets the…