Category: Books

  • Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon government of Spain attempted to categorize and control its colonial subjects through increasing social regulation of their bodies and the spaces they inhabited.

  • In brilliant novelistic detail, award-winning historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, an “infernal motley crew” of cotton kings, decadent river workers, immigrants, and slaves. Miller’s dramatic trial offers an eye into the fascinating laws and customs surrounding slavery, immigration, and racial mixing.

  • Bridging: How Gloria Anzaldúa’s Life and Work Transformed Our Own University of Texas Press April 2011 292 pages 6 x 9 in., 6 b&w photos Edited by: AnaLouise Keating, Professor of Women’s Studies Texas Woman’s University Gloria González-López, Associate Professor of Sociology, and Faculty Associate Center for Mexican American Studies Center for Women’s and Gender…

  • Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon’s, and “Black Skin, White Masks” represents some of his most important work.

  • A Free Man of Color Grove/Atlantic, Inc. October 2011 112 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4566-6 John Guare John Guare’s new play is astonishing, raucous, and panoramic. A Free Man of Color is set in boisterous New Orleans prior to the historic Louisiana Purchase. Before law and order took hold and class,…

  • The Memory of Love Grove/Atlantic, Inc. January 2011 464 pages Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1965-0 Paperback ISBN 13: 978-0-8021-4568-0 Aminatta Forna Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book Finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction An Essence Book Club Pick From the award-winning author of The Devil That Danced on the Water and Ancestor Stones…

  • Half-Blood Blues Picador (an imprint of Macmillan) 2011-09-03 304 pages 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.9 in Cloth ISBN:9780887627415 Paperback ISBN: ISBN: 9781250012708 Esi Edugyan Winner of the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Paris, 1940.  A brilliant jazz musician, Hiero, is arrested by the Nazis and never heard from again.  He is twenty years old.  He is a…

  • African Diasporas: Afro-German Literature in the Context of the African American Experience Lit Verlag 2006 144 pages ISBN: 3-8258-9612-9 Aija Poikane-Daumke This book investigates the development of Afro-German literature in the context of the African American experience and shows the decisive role of literature for the emergence of the Afro-German Movement. Various Afro-German literary and…

  • Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers and Other Untold Stories UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2009 375 pages 10-digit ISBN: 0-935626-59-X 13-digit ISBN: 978-0-935626-59-9 William S. Yellow Robe Jr., Playwright, Director, Poet, Actor, Writer, and Educator Edited by: Margo Lukens, Associate Professor of English University of Maine Five Plays by William S. Yellow Robe Jr. This…

  • The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia: The Drums of Life University of Alabama Press 2008 248 pages Quality Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-5488-6 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8173-1615-0 E Book ISBN: 978-0-8173-8113-4    Rosemary Clark Whitlock, Monacan Indian and Independent Scholar The contemporary Monacan Nation had approximately 1,400 registered members in 2006, mostly living in and around Lynchburg, Virginia,…