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  • Half + Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural

    Half + Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural Pantheon an imprint of Random House 1998-06-09 288 pages ISBN: 978-0-375-70011-8 (0-375-70011-0) Edited by Claudine C. O’Hearn As we approach the twenty-first century, biracialism and biculturalism are becoming increasingly common.  Skin color and place of birth are no longer reliable signifiers of one’s identity or…

  • Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century

    “Race and the Cherokee Nation” examines how leaders of the Cherokee Nation fostered a racial ideology through the regulation of interracial marriage. By defining and policing interracial sex, nineteenth-century Cherokee lawmakers preserved political sovereignty, delineated Cherokee identity, and established a social hierarchy.

  • The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance

    The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance Temple University Press November 2002 256 pages Cloth EAN: 978-1-56639-981-4, ISBN: 1-56639-981-5 Paper: EAN: 978-1-56639-982-1, ISBN: 1-56639-982-3 Steve Martinot, Adjunct Professor San Francisco State University A significant re-writing of the history of class formation in the US An important history of the way class formed in the US,…

  • The Cosmic Race / La Raza Cósmica

    The Cosmic Race / La Raza Cósmica Johns Hopkins University Press 1997 (originally published in 1925) 160 pages Paperback: 9780801856556 José Vasconcelos translated, with an introduction, by Didier T. Jaén afterword by Joseba Gabilondo “The days of the pure whites, the victors of today, are as numbered as were the days of their predecessors. Having…

  • Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law: An American History

    Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law: An American History Palgrave Macmillan 2002 336 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 16-page b/w photo insert ISBN: 978-1-4039-6408-3, ISBN10: 1-4039-6408-4 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The first in-depth history of miscegenation law in the United States,…

  • Reconstructing Hybridity: Post-Colonial Studies in Transition

    Reconstructing Hybridity: Post-Colonial Studies in Transition Rodopi 2007 330 pages Hardback: 978-90-420-2141-9 / 90-420-2141-1 Edited by: Joel Kuortti, Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Culture University of Jyväskylä, Finland Jopi Nyman, Acting Professor of English University of Joensuu, Finland This interdisciplinary collection of critical articles seeks to reassess the concept of hybridity and its relevance to post-colonial…

  • Caught Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities

    Caught Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities Rodopi 2002 152 pages Hardback: 978-90-420-1378-0 / 90-420-1378-8 Paperback: 978-90-420-1368-1 / 90-420-1368-0 Edited by: Elizabeth Russell, Professor of Womens Studies and British Literature University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona The essays in this collection (on Canada, the USA, Australia and the UK) question and discuss the issues of cross-cultural…

  • Sociohistorical Constructions of Race and Language: Impacting Biracial Identity

    Sociohistorical Constructions of Race and Language: Impacting Biracial Identity A chapter in The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination. By Jean Lau Chin (Editor). (Santa Barbara, California. Praeger Publishers, 2004. 1,000 pages. ISBN: 0-275-98234-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98234-8) Matthew J. Taylor, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Missouri, St. Louis Historically, race has been constructed within the American psyche…

  • Multicultural/Multiracial Psychology: Mestizo Perspectives in Personality and Mental Health

    Multicultural/Multiracial Psychology: Mestizo Perspectives in Personality and Mental Health  Jason Aronson an imprint of Rowman Littelfield 1997 296 pages Cloth 0-7657-0073-5 / 978-0-7657-0073-5 Manuel Ramirez, III, Professor of Psychology University of Texas, Austin also Clinical Professor of Psychology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas This book presents a cognitive styles framework that explores the…

  • Fort Red Border

    Fort Red Border Sarabande Books 2009-08-01 88 pages Trim: 9 x 6 Paper ISBN: 978-1-932511-74-1 Kiki Petrosino, Professor of Poetry University of Virginia Kiki Petrosino has audacity to spare. She devotes the entire first section of her debut collection of poems to a putative affair the speaker is conducting with an imaginary Robert Redford. In…