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  • Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian

    Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian Purdue University Press 1994-06-01 248 pages 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN 10: 1557530513; ISBN 13: 9781557530516 eBook ISBN 10: 1612490948; ISBN 13: 9781612490946 José Raimundo Maia Neto, Professor of the Philosophy Federal University of Minas Gerais Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian examines the towering figure of nineteenth century…

  • African-American Reflections on Brazil’s Racial Paradise

    African-American Reflections on Brazil’s Racial Paradise Temple University Press February 1992 276 pages 5.5 x 8.25 Cloth ISBN: 0-87722-892-2 eBook ISBN: 978-1-59213-104-4 Edited by David J. Hellwig, Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Studies St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota Essays that focus on the authors’ observations of race relations in Brazil from the first decade…

  • Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History

    “Genetics and the Unsettled Past” considers the alignment of genetic science with commercial genealogy, with legal and forensic developments, and with pharmaceutical innovation to examine how these trends lend renewed authority to biological understandings of race and history.

  • Honor Bound: Race and Shame in America

    Honor Bound: Race and Shame in America Rutgers University Press 2012-03-27 288 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5270-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5269-9 David Leverenz, Professor Emeritus of English University of Florida As Bill Clinton said in his second inaugural address, “The divide of race has been America’s constant curse.” In Honor Bound, David Leverenz explores the past to…

  • To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965

    To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965 Duke University Press 1998 336 pages 11 b&w photographs, 2 maps Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2098-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2084-5 Jeffrey L. Gould, Rudy Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century,…

  • Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil

    This groundbreaking ethnographic study analyzes everyday practices that leave intact the myth that Brazil is a racial democracy.

  • Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States

    Carl Degler’s 1971 Pulitzer-Prize-winning study of comparative slavery in Brazil and the United States is reissued in the Wisconsin paperback edition, making it accessible for all students of American and Latin American history and sociology.

  • A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother

    A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother Riverhead an Imprint of Penguin Press 2011-05-03 384 pages 9.25 x 6.25in Hardcover ISBN: 9781594487972 Paperback ISBN: 9781594485596 Janny Scott A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama—his mother. Barack Obama has written extensively…

  • Washed in the Blood

    This unique three-part novel assumes that, regardless of what Americans learn in school, the Southeast was not a barren wilderness when the English arrived at Jamestown. It was full of Native Americans, other Europeans, and Africans who were there for various reasons.

  • Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times

    Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times University of New Mexico Press 2009 296 pages 6 x 9 in, 21 halftones, 4 maps paperback ISBN: 978-0-8263-4701-5 Edited by: Ben Vinson III, Professor of history and Director of the Center for Africana Studies Johns Hopkins University Matthew Restall, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of…