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  • Ethnicities: Plays from the New West

    Ethnicities: Plays from the New West NeWest Press Spring 1999 208 pages paperback ISBN 13: 978-1-896300-03-0 Edited by: Anne Nothof, Professor Emeritus of English Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada Edited by Anne Nothof, the three plays included this anthology all deal with intercultural issues in Canada with humour, wit and at times, heartbreak. They range from…

  • Faking It: Poetics & Hybridity: Critical Writing 1984-1999

    Faking It: Poetics & Hybridity: Critical Writing 1984-1999 NeWest Press Spring 2000 288 pages Paperback ISBN 13: 978-1-896300-07-8 Fred Wah According to Fred Wah, the act of thinking critically is one of exploration and discovery. In Faking It, Wah demonstrates how writing poetry is writing critically. This scrapbook of Wah’s work—collected from fifteen years of…

  • Diamond Grill (10th Anniversary Edition)

    Diamond Grill (10th Anniversary Edition) NeWest Press Fall 2006 208 pages paperback ISBN 13: 978-1-897126-11-0 Fred Wah This story of family and identity, migration and integration, culture and self-discovery is told through family history, memory, and the occasional recipe. Diamond Grill is a rich banquet where Salisbury steak shares a menu with chicken fried rice,…

  • Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960

    At the turn of the twentieth century, a wave of Chinese men made their way to the northern Mexican border state of Sonora to work and live. The ties—and families—these Mexicans and Chinese created during led to the formation of a new cultural identity: Chinese Mexican.

  • Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940

    Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940 University of North Carolina Press November 2003 256 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 8 illus., notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5563-8 Alejandra Bronfman, Professor of History University of British Columbia In the years following Cuba’s independence, nationalists aimed to transcend racial categories in order to…

  • The Black Musketeer: Reevaluating Alexandre Dumas within the Francophone World

    Alexandre Dumas, author of “The Three Musketeers,” “The Count of Monte Cristo,” and “The Man in the Iron Mask,” is the most famous French writer of the nineteenth century. In 2002, his remains were transferred to the Panthéon, a mausoleum reserved for the greatest French citizens, amidst much national hype during his bicentennial.

  • The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa

    The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa Princeton University Press 2011 368 pages 6 x 9; 7 halftones. 1 line illus. 4 maps Paper ISBN: 9780691123172 Cloth ISBN: 9780691123165 eBook ISBN: 9781400840410 Duana Fullwiley, Associate Professor of African and African American studies and of Medical Anthropology Harvard University In…

  • An Immigrant Neighborhood: Interethnic and Interracial Encounters in New York before 1930

    How the crowded neighborhoods of New York’s Lower East Side gave rise to cross-racial and cross ethnic bonds before 1930

  • The Masters and the Slaves (Casa-grande & senzala): A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization

    This book is out of print, but available for on-line reading here.

  • Inheritance, A Novel

    Inheritance, A Novel Hamilton Stone Editions 2011-11-15 308 pages 9 x 6 x 1 inches ISBN: 978-0-9801786-8-5 Jane Lazarre Jane Lazarre’s compelling novel explores America’s mixed racial history through the lives of four families whose fates are intertwined across several generations from slavery to the present. Unflinching in its description of the horrors of slavery…