Category: Books

  • “A Half Caste” and Other Writings University of Illinois Press 2003 208 pages 6 x 9 in. Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07094-5 Onoto Watanna (1875-1954) Edited by: Linda Trinh Moser, Professor of English Missouri State University Elizabeth Rooney Previously uncollected short stories and essays by the first fiction writer of Chinese ancestry to be published in the…

  • The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance Cambridge University Press August 2006 256 pages Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm Weight: 0.55 kg Hardback ISBN: 9780521865395 Paperback ISBN: 9780521073042 Adobe eBook Reader ISBN: 9780511239465 Mobipocket eBook ISBN: 9780511247484 Ezra Tawil, Associate Professor of English University of Rochester, Rochester, New York…

  • Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters Stanford University Press 2009 312 pages 11 tables, 15 figures, 16 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780804759984 Paper ISBN: 9780804759991 E-book ISBN: 9780804770996 Edited by: Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Asian American Studies University of California, Berkeley Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism—the preference…

  • Mandy Oxendine University of Illinois Press September 1997 136 pages ISBN-10: 0252063473 ISBN-13: 9780252063473 Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) Foreword by William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill In a novel rejected by a major publisher in the 19th century as too shocking for its time, writer Charles…

  • Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novel The University of Alabama Press 2006 208 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-1520-7 E-Book ISBN: 978-0-8173-8228-5 Ryan Simmons An important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism.   With the release of previously unpublished novels and a recent proliferation of critical studies on his life and work,…

  • Undermining Race: Ethnic Identities in Arizona Copper Camps, 1880-1920 University of Arizona Press 2009 240 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-2745-8 Phylis Cancilla Martinelli, Professor of Sociology Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, California Undermining Race rewrites the history of race, immigration, and labor in the copper industry in Arizona. The book focuses on…

  • Mestizo in America: Generations of Mexican Ethnicity in the Suburban Southwest University of Arizona Press 2006 200 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-2504-1; Paper ISBN: 978-0-8165-2505-8 Thomas Macias, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Vermont How much does ethnicity matter to Mexican Americans today, when many marry outside their culture and some can’t even…

  • The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance Ashgate Publishing November 2009 232 pages Includes 5 b&w illustrations Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-6198-6 Rachel Farebrother, Lecturer in American Studies University of Swansea Beginning with a subtle and persuasive analysis of the cultural context, Farebrother examines collage in modernist and Harlem Renaissance figurative art and unearths the collage sensibility…

  • We must now return to Santa Cruz and give a hasty sketch of the fortunes of George Carlan and his wife, during the twelve years absence of their daughter in Denmark.

  • The story of Zoë Carlan, a young colored girl, of the little Danish island of Santa Cruz, is a pathetic illustration of the false position into which a refined and educated nature may be thrown, by the fierce prejudices of caste and color.