Category: Books

  • School for Tricksters: A Novel in Stories Texas A&M University Press Consortium (Southern Methodist University Press) 2011-01-11 248 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-87074-563-8 Chris Gavaler, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia This is a novel in stories depicting radical incidents of racial crossing in the early twentieth century. The alternating…

  • Standing on Both Feet: Voices of Older Mixed-Race Americans Paradigm Publishers December 2011 208 pages 6×9 ISBN: 978-1-59451-982-6 Cathy J. Tashiro, PhD, RN, Associate Professor of Nursing University of Washington, Tacoma In the first book to focus on the experiences of older American of mixed race identity, Cathy Tashiro explores questions of identity and the…

  • Barack Obama in Hawai’i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President ABC-CLIO Praeger September 2011 276 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-313-38533-9 Electronic ISBN: 978-0-313-38534-6 Dinesh Sharma, Senior Fellow Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Research St. Francis College, New York Distinguishing itself from the mass of political biographies of Barack Obama,…

  • To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance University Press of Mississippi 1999 202 pages Cloth: 157806130X (9781578061303) Paper: 1578061318 (9781578061310) Jon Woodson, Professor of English Howard University, Washington, D.C. Jean Toomer’s adamant stance against racism and his call for a raceless society were far more complex than the average reader of…

  • Dreams and Nightmares of a White Australia: Representing Aboriginal Assimilation in the Mid-twentieth Century Peter Lang Publishing Group 2009 257 pages Weight: 0.410 kg, 0.904 lbs Paperback ISBN:  978-3-03911-722-2 Series: Studies in Asia-Pacific “Mixed Race” (Volume 3) Catriona Elder, Professor of Sociology University of Syndney By the mid-twentieth century the various Australian states began changing their…

  • Visibly Different: Face, Place and Race in Australia Peter Lang Publishing Group 2007 186 pages Weight: 0.330 kg, 0.728 lbs Paperback ISBN: 978-3-03911-323-1 Series: Studies in Asia-Pacific “Mixed Race” (Volume 2) Edited by: Maureen Perkins, Associate Professor of History, Anthropology and Sociology Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia What does an Australian look like? Many Australians assume…

  • Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana Lousiana State University Press 2004-10-30 344 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches / 8 halftones, 3 maps ISBN-10: 0807130265; ISBN-13: 978-0807130261 Caryn Cossé Bell, Professor of History University of Massachusetts, Lowell Jules and Frances Landry Award With the Federal occupation of New Orleans in 1862, Afro-Creole leaders…

  • “Portuguese” Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries Indiana University Press 2002-11-14 224 pages 32 b&w photos, 2 maps, 1 index 6.125 x 9.25 ISBN: 978-0-253-21552-9 Peter Mark, Professor of Art History Wesleyan University In this detailed history of domestic architecture in West Africa, Peter Mark shows how building styles are closely associated with…

  • The Preacher and the Politician: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America University of Virginia Press October 2009 160 pages 5 1/2x 81/4 Cloth ISBN: 0-8139-2886-9 Clarence E. Walker, Professor of History University of California, Davis Gregory D. Smithers, Visiting Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University Barack Obama’s inauguration as the first African American president of…

  • The Most Famous Woman in Baseball: Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues Potomac Books, Inc. March 2011 256 pages 26 b&w Images; Notes; Suggested Reading; Appendix; Index 6″ x 9″ Cloth ISBN: 978-1-59797-546-9 Bob Luke Never one to mince words, Effa Manley once wrote a letter to sportswriter Art Carter, saying that she hoped they…