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  • The House Behind the Cedars

    The House Behind the Cedars Houghton, Mifflin and Company 1900 294 pages Electronic Edition University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1997 Text scanned (OCR) by Jamie Vacca Text encoded by Natalia Smith and Don Sechler Filesize: ca. 600KB Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)    The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CH database “A Digitized…

  • Freedom on the Border: The Seminole Maroons in Florida, the Indian Territory, Coahuila, and Texas

    Freedom on the Border: The Seminole Maroons in Florida, the Indian Territory, Coahuila, and Texas Texas Tech University Press 2003 256 pages 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches Paper ISBN-10: 0896725162, ISBN-13: 978-0896725164 Kevin Mulroy, Associate University Librarian University of California, Los Angeles In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, black runaways braved an…

  • Invisible Darkness: Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen

    Invisible Darkness: Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen University of Iowa Press 1993 255 pages, 10 photos Paper 0-87745-437-X, 978-0-87745-437-3 Charles R. Larson, Professor of Literature American University Invisible Darkness offers a striking interpretation of the tortured lives of the two major novelists of the Harlem Renaissance: Jean Toomer, author of Cane (1923), and Nella Larsen,…

  • Introduction: Re-imagining coloured identities in post-Apartheid South Africa

    Introduction: Re-imagining coloured identities in post-Apartheid South Africa Introduction to: Coloured by History, Shaped by Place: New Perspectives on Coloured Identities in Cape Town Kwela Books 2001 320 pages ISBN-10: 0795701365 ISBN-13: 978-0795701368 Edited by: Zimitri Erasmus, Senior Lecturer in Sociology University of Cape Town Introduction by: Zimitri Erasmus, Senior Lecturer in Sociology University of…

  • Symptomatic

    Symptomatic Riverhead Books (an imprint of Penguin) February 2005 224 pages 5.07 x 7.87in Paperback ISBN: 9781594480676 Danzy Senna A young woman moves to New York City for what promises to be a dream job. Displaced, she feels unsure of her fit in the world. Then comes a look of recognition, a gesture of friendship from…

  • The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary

    The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary Rutgers University Press 2011-01-19 248 pages, 3 photographs Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4783-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4782-4 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8135-4989-7 Lori Harrison-Kahan, Full-time Adjunct Faculty in English Boston College During the first half of the twentieth century, American Jews demonstrated a commitment to racial justice as well as an…

  • White By Definition: Social Classification in Creole Louisiana

    White By Definition: Social Classification in Creole Louisiana Rutgers University Press May 1986 325 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-2088-9 Virginia Dominguez, Professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Part I: The Legal Domain 2. Defining the Racial Structure 3. The Properties of Blood…

  • Beyond The Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons

    Beyond The Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons Duke University Press 1996 198 pages Cloth: ISBN: 978-0-8223-1826-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2044-9 Jane Lazarre “I am Black,” Jane Lazarre’s son tells her. “I have a Jewish mother, but I am not ‘biracial.’ That term is meaningless to me.” She understands, she says—but…

  • Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas

    Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas Ashgate Publishing July 2007 218 pages 219 x 153 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-5189-5 Edited by Nora E. Jaffary, Associate Professor of History Concordia University, Montreal, Canada When Europe introduced mechanisms to control New World territories, resources and populations, women-whether African, indigenous, mixed race, or European-responded…

  • Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America

    Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America Princeton University Press 2005 288 pages 6 x 9, 17 halftones, 1 line illustration, 2 maps ISBN13: 978-0-691-13379-9 Heide Fehrenbach, Presidential Research Professor of History Northern Illinois University When American victors entered Germany in the spring of 1945, they came armed not only with…