Category: Books

  • The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil University of North Carolina Press February 1999 168 pages 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-4766-4 Hermano Vianna Edited and translated by John Charles Chasteen, Associate Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Samba is Brazil’s “national rhythm,” the foremost…

  • Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil Palgrave Macmillan August 2003 256 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Hardback ISBN: 978-0-312-29374-1, ISBN10: 0-312-29374-7 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-312-29375-8, ISBN10: 0-312-29375-5 Livio Sansone, Vice Director of Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiaticos Universidade Candido Mendes in Brazil Drawing on 15 years of research in Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Suriname,…

  • Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops Duke University Press 2007 360 pages 37 b&w photos, 9 tables Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4037-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4018-8 Ginetta E. B. Candelario, Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Latina/o Studies Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical…

  • A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana Louisiana State University Press April 2011 328 pages 6 x 9 inches, 21 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780807137932 Alexander P. Tureaud, Jr. Rachel L. Emanuel Throughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was…

  • The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency Random House, Inc. 2011-08-16 336 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-37789-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-307-45555-0 Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School Timely—as the 2012 presidential election nears—and controversial, here is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on racial…

  • Absalom, Absalom! Random House 1936 432 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-679-73218-1 William Faulkner First published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is William Faulkner’s ninth novel and one of his most admired. It tells the story of Thomas Sutpen and his ruthless, single-minded attempt to forge a dynasty in Jefferson, Mississippi, in 1830. Although his grand design is…

  • Black Pluralism in Post Loving America Chapter in: Loving vs. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage Cambridge University Press May 2012 300 pages Hardback ISBN-13: 9780521198585 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780521147989 Edited by Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Rose Cuison Villazor, Associate Professor of Law Hofstra University Chapter Author…

  • Racial Classification and History Routledge 1997-02-01 376 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8153-2602-1 Edited by E. Nathaniel Gates (1955-2006) Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Yeshiva University Explores the concept of “race” The term “race,” which originally denoted genealogical or class identity, has in the comparatively brief span of 300 years taken on an entirely new meaning.…

  • An innovative interpretation of the development of Brazilian literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Originally published in 1983, “Three Sad Races” is a study of how Brazilian literature deals with the nation’s racial diversity themes and gives vent to the general disquietude concerning this.

  • International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing develops theoretical perspectives and presents intellectually shaped empirical evidence that can deal with complexity and normalcy in order to move the debate onto more fruitful grounds. It is an important book for students and scholars of race and ethnicity.