Category: Books

  • Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement’s most important and prolific authors, “Plum Bun” is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl who discovers she can pass for white. After the death of her parents, Angela moves to New York to escape the racism she…

  • The day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him “the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington.” For more than two decades, White, as secretary of the NAACP, was perhaps the nation’s most visible and most powerful African-American leader.

  • Take One Candle, Light a Room: A Novel Pantheon Books an Imprint of Random House 2010-10-12 336 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-307-37914-6 (0-307-37914-0) Susan Straight, Professor of Creative Writing University of California, Riverside Fantine Antoine is a travel writer, a profession that keeps her happily away from her southern California home most of the time. When…

  • Microaggressions and Marginality: Manifestation, Dynamics, and Impact Wiley July 2010 360 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-470-49139-3 Edited By: Derald Wing Sue, Professor of Psychology and Education Teachers College, Columbia University A landmark volume exploring covert bias, prejudice, and discrimination with hopeful solutions for their eventual dissolution Exploring the psychological dynamics of unconscious and unintentional expressions of…

  • The Shadow King Mariner Books an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2004-11-23 320 pages Trim Size: 5.50 x 8.25 Paperback ISBN-13/EAN: 9780618485369; ISBN-10: 0618485368 Jane Stevenson, Regius Chair of Humanity University of Aberdeen In The Shadow King, Jane Stevenson illuminates the world of the intriguing Balthasar Stuart, the secret biracial child born of the illicit…

  • Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race, 2nd Edition Routledge 1994-12-14 248 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-31183-0 Robert J. C. Young, Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature New York University As one of the most important books in post-colonial studies, this book argues that contemporary theories on post-colonialism and ethnicity are disturbingly close to…

  • Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race Farrar, Straus and Giroux (an imprint of MacMillan) April 1998 84 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0-374-52533-0, ISBN10: 0-374-52533-1 Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia Law School In these five eloquent and passionate pieces (which she gave as the…

  • Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil Duke University Press 2001 392 pages 46 b&w photos, 1 map, 3 figures Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2731-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2741-7 Jonathan W. Warren, Associate Professor of International and Latin American Studies University of Washington Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in…

  • Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line The Penguin Press 2009-02-05 384 pages 5.98 x 9.01in Hardcover ISBN 9781594202001 Martha A. Sandweiss, Professor of History Princeton University National Book Critics Circle Awards Winner The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West and the woman…

  • A unique book offering both a research overview and practical advice for its readers, this text allows students to gain a solid understanding of the research that has been generated on several important issues surrounding multiracial families, including intimate relations, family dynamics, transracial adoptions, and other topics of personal and scholarly interest.