Category: Books

  • As the racial hierarchy shifts and inequality between Americans widens, it is important to understand the impact of social class on the rapidly growing multiracial population. “Multiracial Americans and Social Class” is the first book on multiracial Americans to do so and fills a noticeable void in a growing market.

  • Everyday Practice of Race in America: Ambiguous Privilege Routledge 2010-04-13 128 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-203-85266-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-78055-1 E-Book ISBN: 978-0-203-85266-8 Utz McKnight, Assistant Professor of Political Science University of Alabama An original contribution to political theory and cultural studies this work argues for a reinterpretation of how race is described in US society. McKnight…

  • A young Amerasian comes of age as he grows up in the Korean city of Inchon and struggles to come to terms with his own identity and with his memories of a lost half-brother, whom his Korean mother sacrificed to marry his American father.

  • In “One of the Family,” Brenda Macdougall draws on diverse written and oral sources and employs the concept of wahkootowin—the Cree term for a worldview that privileges family and values relatedness between all beings—to trace the emergence of a distinct Metis community at Île à la Crosse in northern Saskatchewan.

  • In the United States, the notion of racial “passing” is usually associated with blacks and other minorities who seek to present themselves as part of the white majority. Yet as Baz Dreisinger demonstrates in this fascinating study, another form of this phenomenon also occurs, if less frequently, in American culture: cases in which legally white…

  • The Masters and the Slaves: Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries Palgrave Macmillan January 2005 176 pages Size 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 1-4039-6708-3 Hardcover ISBN: 1-4039-6563-3 Edited by: Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literature University of California, San Diego The Masters and the Slaves theorizes the interface of plantation relations…

  • White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity Palgrave Macmillan December 2007 208 pages Size 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 1-4039-7595-7 Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Associate Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literature University of California, San Diego White Negritude analyzes the discourse of mestiçagem (mestizaje, métissage, or “mixing”) in Brazil. Focused on Gilberto Freyre‘s sociology of plantation…

  • “They Call It Marriage”: the Louisiana Interracial Family and the Making of American Legitimacy Book Manuscript In Progress Diana Irene Williams, Assistant Professor of History, Law and Gender Studies University of Southern California Winner of the 2008 William Nelson Cromwell Dissertation Prize in Legal History. “They Call it Marriage” examines interracial marriage between black women…

  • Taboo: Essays on Culture and Education Peter Lang Publishing Group 2010 250 pages Paparback ISBN: 978-1-4331-0840-2 Edited by: Shirley R. Steinberg McGill University Lindsay Cornish Taboo: Essays on Culture and Education is a collection of 15 compelling and controversial articles from the pages of Taboo: The Journal of Cultural Studies and Education. Scholars including Henry…

  • Zadie Smith: Critical Essays Peter Lang Publishing Group March 2008 221 pages Paparback ISBN: 9978-0-8204-8806-6 Edited by: Tracey L. Walters, Associate Professor of Literature Stony Brook University Zadie Smith: Critical Essays is a timely collection of critical articles examining how Zadie Smith‘s novels and short stories interrogate race, postcolonialism, and identity. Essays explore the various…