Category: Books

  • Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 3rd Edition Cengage Learning 2012 480 pages ISBN-10: 1111519536; ISBN-13: 9781111519537 Edited by Elizabeth Higginbotham, Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Criminology University of Delaware Margaret L. Andersen, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology University of Delaware This engaging reader is organized in four…

  • Midnight’s Orphans: Anglo-Indians in Post/Colonial Literature Peter Lang 2006 265 pages Weight: 0.370 kg, 0.816 lbs Paperback ISBN: 978-3-03910-848-0 Series: Studies in Asia-Pacific “Mixed Race” Glenn D’Cruz, Senior Lecturer School of Communication and Creative Arts Deakin University, Australia Anglo-Indians are the human legacy of European colonialism. These descendants of European men and Indian women regularly…

  • Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century Cambridge University Press January 2009 348 pages 228 x 152 mm; 0.6kg Hardback ISBN: 9780521884655 Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Professor of Modern History Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in…

  • The Creole Elite and the Rise of Angolan Proto-Nationalism, 1870–1920 Cambria Press 2008-09-08 340 pages ISBN: 9781604975291 Jacopo Corrado This book is about Angolan literature and culture. It investigates a segment of Angolan history and literature, with which even Portuguese-speaking readers are generally not familiar. Its main purpose is to define the features and the…

  • The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora: Ethnogenesis in Context Cambria Press 2010-08-08 360 pages ISBN: 9781604977042 Antonio Olliz-Boyd, Emeritus Professor of Latin American Literature Temple University Just beneath the surface of most scholars’ research on the ethno-racial composition of Spanish-speaking America lies a definitive connection between the African Diaspora and the Latin American…

  • Drawing on the experiences of mixed-descent families, “In/visible Sight” examines the early history of cross-cultural encounter and colonisation in southern New Zealand.

  • White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP The New Press Fall 2002 496 pages Trim: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-56584-773-6 Kenneth R. Janken, Professor, African and Afro-American Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill A publishing landmark, the first biography of the man who brought the NAACP to national prominence From…

  • Métis/Mulâtre, Mulato, Mulatto, Negro, Moreno, Mundele Kaki, Black,… The Wanderings and Meanderings of Identities Chapter in: Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States Routledge 2003-09-30 240 pages Edited by Jean Muteba Rahier, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies Florida International University Percey C. Hintzen, Professor of African…

  • But Don’t Call Me White: Mixed Race Women Exposing Nuances of Privilege and Oppression Politics Sense Publishers September 2011 258 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-94-6091-692-2 Paperback ISBN 978-94-6091-691-5 Silvia Cristina Bettez, Assistant Professor of Cultural Foundations School of Education University of North Carolina, Greensboro Highlighting the words and experiences of 16 mixed race women (who have…

  • Desdemona’s Fire Lotus Press/Wayne State University Press 1999 61 pages 5.5 x 8.5 Paper ISBN: 9780916418830 Ruth Ellen Kocher, Associate Professor of English University of Colorado, Boulder This is the author’s first book and winner of the 1999 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. While miscegenation has always been more a part of American history than…