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  • “Assimilating the Primitive”: Parallel Dialogues on Racial Miscegenation in Revolutionary Mexico

    “Assimilating the Primitive”: Parallel Dialogues on Racial Miscegenation in Revolutionary Mexico Peter Lang Publishing Group 2004 179 pages, 4 tables Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8204-6322-3 Kelley R. Swarthout, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Colgate University, New York This book examines the Mexican nationalist rhetoric that promoted race mixing as a cultural ideal, placing it within its broader…

  • The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination

    The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination Peter Lang Publishing Group 2004 198 pages ISBN: 978-0-8204-6206-6 Carlyle Van Thompson, Acting Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Education Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York The Tragic Black Buck examines the phenomenon, often paradoxical, of black males passing for white…

  • Census and Consensus? A Historical Examination of the US Census Racial Terminology Used for American Residents of African Ancestry

    Census and Consensus? A Historical Examination of the US Census Racial Terminology Used for American Residents of African Ancestry Peter Lang Publishing Group 2005-07-31 232 pages 20.6 x 14.7 x 1.5 cm US-ISBN: 978-0-8204-7667-4 Iman Makeba Laversuch, Lecturer University of Cologne, Germany Colored, Black, Negro, Mulatto, Quadroon, Octoroon, African American. This book provides an in-depth…

  • The age of Obama: The changing place of minorities in British and American society

    The age of Obama: The changing place of minorities in British and American society Manchester University Press 2010-04-01 192 pages 234x156mm Hardback ISBN: 9780719082771; Paperback ISBN: 9780719082788 Tom Clark, Columnist The Guardian Robert D. Putnam, and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy Harvard University Edward Fieldhouse, Professor of Social and Political Science and Director of…

  • In Their Siblings’ Voices: White Non-Adopted Siblings Talk About Their Experiences Being Raised with Black and Biracial Brothers and Sisters

    In Their Siblings’ Voices: White Non-Adopted Siblings Talk About Their Experiences Being Raised with Black and Biracial Brothers and Sisters Columbia University Press May 2009 248 pages 5 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-231-14850-4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-14851-1 Rita J. Simon, University Professor Emerita Department of Justice, Law and Society American University, Washington, D.C. In Their Siblings’ Voices…

  • Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids

    Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids Chronicle Books 2010-03-17 264 pages 7 x 7 in; 127 color photographs ISBN 9780811874083 ISBN10 0811874087 Kip Fulbeck, Professor of Performative Studies, Video University of California, Santa Barbara Foreword by Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng Afterword by Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian) Mixed — From beloved writer and artist Kip Fulbeck, author of Part…

  • White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812

    White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 University of North Carolina Press 1968-09-25 (Republished: September 1995) 671 pages 8.9 x 6 x 1.4 inches ISBN: 978-0-8078-4550-9 Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Winthrop D. Jordan (1931-2007) Winner of the 1968 Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American…

  • Entangling Alliances: Foreign War Brides and American Soldiers in the Twentieth Century

    Entangling Alliances: Foreign War Brides and American Soldiers in the Twentieth Century New York University Press 2010-03-22 320 pages, 8 illustrations ISBN: 9780814797174 Susan Zeiger Throughout the twentieth century, American male soldiers returned home from wars with foreign-born wives in tow, often from allied but at times from enemy nations, resulting in a new, official…

  • Communication, Race, and Family: Exploring Communication in Black, White, and Biracial Families

    Communication, Race, and Family: Exploring Communication in Black, White, and Biracial Families Routledge 1999-08-01 Pages: 264 Trim Size: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8058-2938-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8058-2939-6 Edited by: Thomas J. Socha Rhunette C. Diggs This groundbreaking volume explores how family communication influences the perennial and controversial topic of race. In assembling this collection, editors…

  • The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940

    The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940 University of Texas Press 1990 143 pages 10 b&w illus. 6 x 9 in. ISBN: 978-0-292-73857-7 Edited by Richard Graham, Emeritus Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History University of Texas, Austin With chapters by Thomas E. Skidmore, Aline Helg, and Alan Knight From the mid-nineteenth century…