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  • IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas

    IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas Smithsonian Institution 2009 256 pages 6 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches 115 color and black-and-white illustrations ISBN: 978-1-58834-271-3 Twenty-seven passionate essays explore the complex history and contemporary lives of people with a dual heritage that is a little-known part of American culture. Authors from across the Americas share…

  • African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation

    African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation University of Oklahoma Press 2007 368 pages, 6″ x 9″ Illustrations: 15 color illustrations, 4 maps Hardcover ISBN: 9780806138152 Paperback ISBN: 9780806168951 Gary Zellar, Assistant Professor of History University of Saskatchewan A narrative history of the African Creek community Among the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste—black people—and…

  • Making Ethnic Choices: California’s Punjabi Mexican Americans

    Discovering an unexpected compatibility, Punjabis married women of Mexican descent and these alliances inspired others as the men introduced their bachelor friends to the sisters and friends of their wives. These biethnic families developed an identity as “Hindus” but also as Americans.

  • Fire and Desire: Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era

    Given the impossibility of purity and the co-implication of white and black, “Fire and Desire” ultimately questions the category of “race movies” itself.

  • Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920

    Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 University of Chicago Press 2005 224 pages 10 halftones  6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 9780226532424 Paper ISBN: 9780226532431 E-book ISBN: 9780226532523 Pablo Mitchell, Eric and Jane Nord Associate Professor of History and Comparative American Studies Oberlin College With the arrival of the transcontinental railroad…

  • Blue Veins and Kinky Hair: Naming and Color Consciousness in African America

    The author explores how Africans in America internalized the negative images created of them by the European world, and how internalized racism has worked to fracture African American unity and thereby dilute inchoate efforts toward liberation.

  • Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic

    This groundbreaking study analyzes the development of American gothic literature alongside nineteenth-century discourses of passing and racial ambiguity.

  • Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility

    Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility Peter Lang Publishing Group 2010 146 pages Hardback ISBN 978-1-4331-0803-7 Edited by Cybelle H. McFadden, Assistant Professor of French University of North Carolina, Greensboro Sandrine F. Teixidor, Assistant Professor of French Studies Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility underscores the writing of authors who foreground…

  • “What is In My Blood?”: Contemporary Black Scottishness and the Work of Jackie Kay [Book Chapter]

    “What is In My Blood?”: Contemporary Black Scottishness and the Work of Jackie Kay [Book Chapter] Literature and Racial Ambiguity Rodopi B.V. 2002-09-15 328 pages ISBN-10: 9042014180 ISBN-13: 978-9042014183 pp. 1-25(25) edited by Teresa Hubal and Neil Brooks Peter Clandfield, Assistant Professor of English Studies Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada The work of the…

  • You Have Given Me a Country

    You Have Given Me a Country Sarabande Books 2010-08-15 208 pages 9 x 6 Paperback ISBN: 13: 978-1-932511-82-6 Neela Vaswani, Teacher in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program Spalding University You Have Given Me a Country is a mixed-genre exploration of blurred borders, identity, and what it means to be bicultural. Combining memoir,…