Category: Books

  • When William Henry Hunt married Ida Alexander Gibbs in the spring of 1904, their wedding was a glittering Washington social event that joined an Oberlin-educated diplomat’s daughter and a Wall Street veteran who could trace his lineage to Jamestown.

  • The history of the Caribbean is a history of migrations. The peoples of the region came as conquerors and planters, slaves and indentured laborers from all parts of the globe. Each group contributed to the social fabric, culture, and commerce of the region. The Chinese diaspora has spread Chinese people and culture around the world,…

  • In the late 1700s the roots of cowboy culture arose out of the Carolinas. These men and women were not the typical white ranchers that would be depicted in later stories and films. Instead they were a group of “tri-racial isolates.”

  • An exploration of a great American writer’s abiding concern with the color line

  • Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico Stanford University Press 2008 424 pages 13 illustrations, 2 maps. ISBN-10: 0804756481; ISBN-13: 9780804756488 María Elena Martínez (1966-2014), Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity University of Southern California María Elena Martínez’s Genealogical Fictions is the first in-depth study of the relationship…

  • Biography of famous black abolitionist and voting rights advocate, Robert Purvis.

  • Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921 University of British Columbia Press 2009-05-15 288 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780774816335 Paperback ISBN: 9780774816342 Renisa Mawani, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia Contemporary discussions of multiculturalism and pluralism remain politically charged in former settler societies. Colonial Proximities historicizes these contestations by illustrating…

  • White Teeth: A Novel Vintage an imprint of Random House 2001-06-12 464 pages ISBN: 978-0-375-70386-7 (0-375-70386-1) Zadie Smith On New Year’s morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie–working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt–is calling…

  • Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance University of North Carolina Press April 2004 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 19 illus., 2 charts, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-2868-7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5531-7 Daylanne K. English, Associate Professor of English & Chair Macalester College Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American…

  • Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction University of North Carolina Press December 2004 416 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 22 illus., notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-2902-8 Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5567-6 Michele Mitchell, Associate Professor of History New York University Between 1877 and 1930–years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration,…