Category: Books

  • American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama HarperCollins 2012-06-19 400 pages Trimsize: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 9780061999864; ISBN10: 0061999865 Rachel L. Swarns, Correspondent New York Times A remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama’s mixed ancestry, American Tapestry by Rachel L. Swarns is nothing less than a…

  • Barack Obama: The Story Simon & Schuster June 2012 672 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 1439160406; ISBN-13: 9781439160404 David Maraniss From one of our preeminent journalists and modern historians comes the epic story of Barack Obama and the world that created him. In Barack Obama: The Story, David Maraniss has written a deeply reported generational biography teeming…

  • Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race Stanford University Press April 2012 268 pages 6 tables, 1 figure, 20 photographs Cloth ISBN: 9780804777957 Paper ISBN: 9780804777964 E-book ISBN: 9780804782531 Wendy D. Roth, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia, Canada In this groundbreaking study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United…

  • The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. Cherise Smith analyzes their complex engagements with issues of identity through close readings of a significant performance, or series of performances, by each artist.

  • In this intriguing and highly accessible book, physical anthropologist Ian Tattersall and geneticist Rob DeSalle, both senior scholars from the American Museum of Natural History, explain what human races actually are—and are not—and place them within the wider perspective of natural diversity.

  • Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture Columbia University Press September 2011 304 pages 1 illus; 4 tables Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-15697-4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-231-15696-7 Edited by: Sheldon Krimsky, Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning; Adjunct Professor of Public Health and Family Medicine Tufts School of Medicine Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Kathleen…

  • Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship Temple University Press May 2012 230 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-1-43990-184-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-43990-183-0 eBook ISBN: 978-1-43990-185-4 Kristi Brian, Lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies and Anthropology and Director of Diversity Education and Training College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina Until…

  • Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer Harvard University Press April 2012 352 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches; 20 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674046870 Kenneth W. Mack, Professor of Law Harvard University ” Representing the Race tells the story of an enduring paradox of American race relations, through the prism of a collective…

  • This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature Temple University Press November 2010 216 pages 5.5 x 8.5 1 halftone paper ISBN: 978-1-43990-217-2 cloth ISBN: 978-1-43990-216-5 eBook ISBN: 978-1-43990-218-9 Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies (founder of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN).) San Francisco State…