Category: Books

  • Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius Duke University Press 2004 360 pages 5 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-3402-6 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-3399-9 Megan Vaughan, Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History Cambridge University The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists…

  • The New Face of America: How the Emerging Multiracial, Multiethnic Majority is Changing the United States Praeger Publishers May 2013 195 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-313-38569-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-313-38570-4 Eric J. Bailey, Professor of Anthropology and Public Health East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina This unique and important book investigates what…

  • Best-selling author Lisa Alther chronicles her search for missing branches of her family tree in this dazzling, hilarious memoir.

  • A reprint of an address made before the Synod of Mississippi of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. on November 4, 1954.

  • Amalgamation! Race, Sex, and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel Praeger 1985-08-22 259 pages ISBN: 0-313-24275-5/978-0-313-24275-5 James Kinney This book is likely out of print.

  • In “Transatlantic Spectacles of Race,” Kimberly Manganelli argues that the tragic mulatta and tragic muse, who have heretofore been read separately, must be understood as two sides of the same phenomenon. In both cases, the eroticized and racialized female body is put on public display, as a highly enticing commodity in the nineteenth-century marketplace.

  • A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Métis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832 University of Nebraska Press 2000 233 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8293-3 Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Professor of History Ohio State University, Newark In A Gathering of Rivers, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy traces the histories of Indian, multiracial, and mining communities in the western Great…

  • The Color of Citizenship: Race, Modernity and Latin American / Hispanic Political Thought Oxford University Press November 2011 288 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 Hardback ISBN13: 9780199746668; ISBN10: 0199746664 Diego A. von Vacano, Assistant Professor of Political Science Texas A&M University The role of race in politics, citizenship, and the state is one of the most…

  • Cultural Representation in Native America AltaMira Press August 2006 192 pages Cloth 0-7591-0984-2 / 978-0-7591-0984-1 Paper 0-7591-0985-0 / 978-0-7591-0985-8 Edited by: Andrew J. Jolivétte, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies San Francisco State University Today as in the past there are many cultural and commercial representations of American Indians that, thoughtlessly or otherwise, negatively shape…

  • The Wind Done Gone Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2001 224 pages Trim Size: 5.50 x 8.25 ISBN-13/EAN: 9780618219063 ISBN-10: 0618219064 Alice Randall In this daring and provocative literary parody which has captured the interest and imagination of a nation, Alice Randall explodes the world created in Gone With the Wind, a work that more than any…