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  • The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality: Race and Regional Identity in Northeastern Brazil

    “The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality” explores conceptualizations of regional identity and a distinct population group known as nordestinos in northeastern Brazil during a crucial historical period.

  • Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego

    Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego Rutgers University Press June 2012 256 pages Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780813552835, ISBN: 0813552834 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780813552842, ISBN: 0813552842 Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Associate Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University, Tempe Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical…

  • Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White

    Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White Simon & Schuster January 1995 272 pages ISBN-10: 0671899333 ISBN-13: 9780671899332 Shirlee Haizlip The Sweeter the Juice is a provocative memoir that goes to the heart of our American identity. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, in an effort to reconcile the dissonance between her black persona and…

  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    This remarkable novel documents the life of an American of mixed ethnicity who moves freely in society — from the rural South to the urban North and eventually, Europe.

  • The Wedding: A Novel

    The Wedding: A Novel Anchor and imprint of Random House 1995 256 pages Paperback ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-385-47144-2 Dorothy West (1907-1998) In her first novel in forty-seven years, Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, offers an intimate glimpse into African American middle class.  Set on bucolic Martha’s Vineyard in the 1950s, The…

  • Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds

    Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds Rutgers University Press 2005-05-18 264 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-3586-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3585-2 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8135-3757-3 Erica Chito Childs, Associate Professor of Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Is love color-blind, or at least becoming increasingly so? Today’s popular rhetoric and evidence of more interracial…

  • The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina: Their Origin and Racial Status. A Plea for Separate Schools (Electronic Edition)

    The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina: Their Origin and Racial Status. A Plea for Separate Schools (Electronic Edition) The Seeman Printery, Durham, North Carolina 1916 65 pages George Edwin Butler (1868-1941) Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Tampathia Evans Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Tampathia Evans and…

  • Biracial in America: Forming and Performing Racial Identity

    Taking a social psychological approach, this book identifies influencing factors and several underlying processes shaping racial identity. Unlike previous studies which examine racial identity as if it was a one-dimensional concept, this book examines two dimensions of identity—a public dimension (how they identify themselves to others) and an internalized dimension (how they see themselves internally)—noting…

  • Dealing with Diversity: Media Course Study Guide

    Dealing with Diversity: Media Course Study Guide Kendall Hunt 2008 100 pages Edition: 04 ISBN: 978-0-7575-4772-0 Author(s): Governors State University This course was developed to help you recognize and appreciate the differences and the similarities among diverse groups and individuals in a multicultural society. Living in the U.S.A. in the 21st century poses some of…

  • The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800–1900

    George Reid Andrews has given us a major revision and reconstruction of black history in Argentina since the time of independence, making an exciting and important contribution to both Latin American and Afro-American history. Along the way, he explodes long-held myths, solves a major historical mystery, and documents contributions of blacks to a society that…