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  • The Passing of Anatole Broyard

    The Passing of Anatole Broyard Chapter in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man Random House 1997 256 pages ISBN: 978-0-679-77666-6 Chapter pages: 180-214 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Harvard University In 1982, an investment banker…

  • Almost White

    Almost White Macmillan 1963 212 pages Original Classication ID: E184.A1 B53 Source: University of Michigan via The Hathi Trust Digital Library Brewton Berry Contents Preface 1. The Myth of the Vanishing Indian 2. Where Are They? 3. Who Are They? 4. What the Whites Believe 5. What the Negro Thinks 6. Etiquette 7. How They…

  • From Negro to Caucasian: or, How the Ethiopian is Changing His Skin

    A concise presentation of the manner in which many Negroes in America … have abandoned their… afiliation with Negroes

  • Racial Theories (2nd Edition)

    This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Michael Banton’s classic book reviews historical theories of racial and ethnic relations and contemporary struggles to supersede them. It shows how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century concepts of race attempted to explain human difference in terms of race as a permanent type and how these were followed by social scientific…

  • Brazil’s New Racial Politics

    Brazil’s New Racial Politics Lynne Rienner Publishers 2009 251 pages ISBN: 978-1-58826-666-8 Edited by: Bernd Reiter, Associate Professor of Political Science University of South Florida Gladys L. Mitchell (Gladys Mitchell-Walthour), Assistant Professor of Political Science Denison University, Granville, Ohio As the popular myth of racial equality in Brazil crumbles beneath the weight of current grassroots…

  • Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana

    Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, “Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians” examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture—especially dress—was central to the elaboration of discourses about race.

  • Race and Identity in Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father: A Collection of Critical Essays

    This book examines significant aspects of President Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father both in relation to the African American literary tradition and to the context of the relevant historical and cultural productions that inform it.

  • The Heart of Hyacinth

    The Heart of Hyacinth University of Washington Press 2000 (Originally published in 1903) 288 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Paperback ISBN: paperback (9780295979168 Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton) (1875-1954) Introduction by: Samina Najmi, Professor of English California State University, Fresno The Heart of Hyacinth, originally published in 1903, tells the coming-of-age story of Hyacinth Lorrimer, a child…

  • Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier

    Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier University of Nebraska Press 2005 202 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-2016-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-6841-8 Andrew K. Frank, Allen Morris Associate Professor of History Florida Atlantic University Creeks and Southerners examines the families created by the hundreds of intermarriages between Creek Indian women and European American men in…

  • Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer: A Story of Survival

    “A name creates life patterns,” Allison Adelle Hedge Coke writes, “which form and shape a life; my life, like my name, must have been formed many times over then handed to me to realize.” “Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer” is Hedge Coke’s narrative of that realization, the award-winning poet and writer’s searching account of her life…