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  • Multifaceted Identity of Interethnic Young People: Chameleon Identities

    Multifaceted Identity of Interethnic Young People: Chameleon Identities Ashgate Publishing May 2010 Illustrations: Includes 24 (including 5 tables) line drawings 234 x 156 mm 224 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-7860-1 eBook ISBN: 978-0-7546-9691-9 BL Reference: 305.8’0083-dc22   Sultana Choudhry, Principal Lecturer in Psychology and Director of Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health London Metropolitan University, UK…

  • Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future (Revised and Updated)

    Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future (Revised and Updated) W. W. Norton & Company June 2010 288 pages 5.5 × 8.25 in Paperback ISBN 978-0-393-33685-6 by Angela Glover Blackwell Stewart Kwoh Manuel Pastor, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity University of California, Santa Cruz With a mixed-race president, a Latino population that is now…

  • What’s the Use of Race? Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference

    What’s the Use of Race? Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference The MIT Press May 2010 7 x 9, 296 pp., 7 illus. ISBN-10: 0-262-51424-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51424-8 Edited by Ian Whitmarsh, Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine University of California, San Francisco David S. Jones, Associate Professor of History and Culture…

  • The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories

    The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories Wilfrid Laurier University Press May 2007 370 pages ISBN13: 978-0-88920-523-9 Editors: Ute Lischke, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies Wilfrid Laurier University David T. McNab, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies York University, Toronto Known as “Canada’s forgotten people,” the Métis have long…

  • The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in Twenty-First Century America

    The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in Twenty-First Century America Russell Sage Foundation May 2010 240 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-87154-041-6 Jennifer Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Frank D. Bean, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology and Economics; Director of the Center for Research on Immigration, Population, and Public Policy University of…

  • Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community

    “Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community” is the first systematic study of Coloured identity, its history, and its relevance to South African national life.

  • In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line

    Born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook in one of the Western Hemisphere’s most infamous vice districts, Nella Larsen (1891-1964) lived her life in the shadows of America’s racial divide. She wrote about that life, was briefly celebrated in her time, then was lost to later generations–only to be rediscovered and…

  • Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign

    Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign BrownWalker Press 2010 229 pages ISBN-10: 1599425378 ISBN-13: 9781599425375 Edited by Myra Mendible, Professor of English and Department Chair for Language and Literature Florida Gulf Coast University Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign brings together a diverse group of scholars and activists to examine the…

  • Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century

    Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century Columbia University Press August 1997 248 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-10493-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-231-10492-0 Kevin Mumford, Professor of African-American History University of Iowa Interzones is an innovative account of how the color line was drawn—and how it was crossed—in twentieth-century American cities.…

  • The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother (10th Anniversary Edition)

    James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother’s past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut.