Category: Books

  • A Letter to My Father: Growing up Filipina and American University of Oklahoma Press 2008 184 pages 5.5″ x 8.5″ x 0″ 8 b&w illustrations, 2 maps Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8061-3909-8 Helen Madamba Mossman Going from the jungles of the wartime Philippines to the schoolyards of northwestern Oklahoma is no easy transition. For one twelve-year-old girl,…

  • Santiago de Guatemala, 1541-1773: City, Caste, and the Colonial Experience University of Oklahoma Press 1997 368 pages 9.09″ x 6.02″ x 0.83″ 14 illus, 6 maps, 1 figure Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8061-2911-2; ISBN(10): 0-8061-2911-5 Christopher H. Lutz Santiago de Guatemala was the colonial capital and most important urban center of Spanish Central America from its establishment…

  • The first authorized biography of Philippa Schuyler, “Composition in Black and White” draws on previously unpublished letters and diaries to reveal an extraordinary and complex personality.

  • “Confounding the Color Line” is an essential, interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad relationships forged for centuries between Indians and Blacks in North America. Since the days of slavery, the lives and destinies of Indians and Blacks have been entwined-thrown together through circumstance, institutional design, or personal choice. Cultural sharing and intermarriage have resulted in complex…

  • Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family Oxford University Press July 2006 312 pages 2 maps, 15 halftones, 1 line illus. 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 ISBN13: 978-0-19-531310-9 ISBN10: 0-19-531310-0 Claudio Saunt, Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the Institute of Native American Studies University of Georgia Winner of the…

  • An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America Farrar, Straus and Giroux an imprint of Macmillan 2003 416 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches 16 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations/Map/Notes/Index Paperback ISBN: 978-0-374-52951-2, ISBN10: 0-374-52951-5 Henry Wiencek L.A. Times Book Prize – Winner, History A major new biography of Washington, and…

  • Barack Obama’s America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era The University of Michgan Press 2009 320 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-472-11450-4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-472-03391-1 Ebook Formats ISBN: 978-0-472-02179-6 John Kenneth White, Professor of Politics Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C Research and reflections on the American demographic…

  • But to what extent do “identities” constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our individuality?

  • Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America Basic Books an imprint of The Perseus Books Group 2006-12-28 302 pages ISBN: 9780786718825 ISBN-10: 078671882X Elliott Lewis Television journalist Elliott Lewis weaves his memoirs as a black-and-white biracial American with the voices of dozens of multiracial people who are challenging how we think and speak about race today.…