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  • Mixed Matters: Mixed-race pupils discuss school and identity

    Mixed Matters: Mixed-race pupils discuss school and identity Troubador Publishing March 2011 128 pages 198×127 mm ISBN: 9781848765719 Denise Williams Mixed Matters responds to the dearth of literature about the experiences of mixed-race pupils in British schools. It seeks to examine how much credence schools should give to pupil identities when one parent is white…

  • Neither Black nor White: The Saga of an American Family

    Neither Black nor White: The Saga of an American Family The New World Africa Press 2006-03-03 252 pages 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ISBN-10: 0976876124; ISBN-13: 978-0976876120 Joseph E. Holloway, Professor of Pan African Studies California State University, Northridge Historical novel, which traces the history of the Hadnot family from Gloucester, England in 1585…

  • Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas

    Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas University of Illinois Press 2004 344 pages 6 x 9.25 in.  Illustrations: 25 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-02939-4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07194-2 Edited by David Barry Gaspar, Professor of History Duke University Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and History Northwestern University Black…

  • Race in American Science Fiction

    Race in American Science Fiction Indiana University Press 2011-01-06 paper 286 pages, 6 x 9 paper ISBN-13: 978-0-253-22259-6 cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-253-35553-9 Isiah Lavender, III, Assistant Professor of English University of Central Arkansas Blackness in a white genre Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III…

  • Diversity is Me (survival guide for mixed race people)

    Diversity is Me (survival guide for mixed race people) Lulu Publishing 2010 212 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-557-54051-8 Also available in PDF Format Vanessa Girard As human beings we all share a spirit that demands identity, acknowledgment and regard. It is in the attempts to meet these demands that we encounter road blocks toward self-discovery. Who…

  • A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy

    “A White Side of Black Britain” explores the racial consciousness of white women in the United Kingdom who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage. Filling a gap in the sociological literature on racism and antiracism, France Winddance Twine introduces new theoretical concepts in her description and analysis of…

  • The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Volume 1)

    The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Volume 1) Oxford University Press 1988 480 pages 4-5/8 x 6-1/2 Hardback ISBN13: 978-0-19-505250-3; ISBN10: 0-19-505250-1 Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) Edited by Gloria Hull Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical short stories to poetry, journalism, and novelettes, this is a comprehensive collection of one of America’s most seminal women…

  • Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted

    Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted 1893 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Project Gutenberg EBook 2004-05-14 #12352 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) Read the entire book here.

  • The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature

    In exploring the social and cultural history of this distinctly American phenomenon, Bennett moves freely between literature, film, and music, arguing that the passing figure is crucial to our understanding of past and present conceptions of race.

  • We Know Who We Are: Metis Identity in a Montana Community

    We Know Who We Are: Metis Identity in a Montana Community University of Oklahoma Press 2006 304 pages 6″ x 9″ Illustrations: 8 b&w illus., 5 tables Hardcover ISBN: 9780806137056 Martha Harroun Foster, Associate Professor of History Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro They know who they are. Of predominantly Chippewa, Cree, French, and Scottish descent,…