Category: Books

  • Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity Politics and Textual Strategies Lit Verlag Munster 2003 224 pages ISBN 3-8258-5842-1 Mar Gallego, Associate Professor of American Studies University of Huelva (Spain) Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance offers an insightful study of the significance of passing novels for the literary and intellectual debate of the Harlem…

  • Abeng Penguin Press 1984 176 pages 5.35 x 8.07in ISBN 9780452274839 Michelle Cliff Ever since Abeng was first published in 1984, Michelle Cliff has steadily become a literary force. Her novels evoke both the clearly delineated hierarchies of colonial Jamaica and the subtleties of present-day island life. Nowhere is her power felt more than in…

  • Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance University of North Carolina Press December 2011 336 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 15 illus., notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3508-1 Marvin McAllister, Assistant Professor of English University of South Carolina In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head…

  • Drawing on extensive anthropological fieldwork, Peter Wade shows how the concept of “blackness” and discrimination are deeply embedded in different social levels and contexts—from region to neighborhood, and from politics and economics to housing, marriage, music, and personal identity.

  • Although both Brazil and the United States inherited European norms that accorded whites privileged status relative to all other racial groups, the development of their societies followed different trajectories in defining white/black relations. In Brazil pervasive miscegenation and the lack of formal legal barriers to racial equality gave the appearance of its being a “racial…

  • Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana’s Free People of Color Louisiana State University Press August 2000 344 pages Trim: 6 x 9 , Illustrations: 14 halftones Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2601-1 Edited by: Sybil Kein (born Consuela Marie Moore), Distinguished Professor of English Emerita University of Michigan The word Creole evokes a richness rivaled only by…

  • Long uncovers a connection between the geographical segregation of prostitution and the rising tide of racial segregation. She offers a compelling explanation of how New Orleans’s lucrative sex trade drew tourists from the Bible Belt and beyond even as a nationwide trend toward the commercialization of sex emerged.

  • North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio Mercer University Press 2001 220 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780865547032 John S. Kessler Donald B. Ball The newest book in Mercer University Press’ new series The Melungeons: History, Culture, Ethnicity, and Literature is North from the Mountains: A Folk History of…

  • Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mixed Race Women is a stunning and long awaited collection of some of the most poignant writing by more than forty women of mixed racial heritage.

  • Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition Yale University Press 2000-06-19 304 pages 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN: 9780300080131 Courtney Jung, Associate Professor of Political Science The New School Do race and ethnicity present a danger to the consolidation of effective democratic government? Can liberal constitutionalism provide a stable basis…